different between pluck vs stomach

English

Etymology

From Middle English plucken, plukken, plockien, from Old English pluccian, ploccian (“to pluck, pull away, tear”), also Old English ply??an ("to pluck, pull, snatch; pluck with desire"; > Modern English plitch), from Proto-Germanic *plukk?n?, *plukkijan? (“to pluck”), of uncertain and disputed origin. Perhaps related to Old English pullian (“to pull, draw; pluck off; snatch”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian plukje (“to pluck”), Dutch plukken (“to pluck”), Limburgish plógte (“to pluck”), Low German plukken (“to pluck”), German pflücken (“to pluck, pick”), Danish and Norwegian plukke (“to pick”), Swedish plocka (“to pick, pluck, cull”), Icelandic plokka, plukka (“to pluck, pull”). More at pull.

An alternate etymology suggests Proto-Germanic *plukk?n?, *plukkijan? may have been borrowed from an assumed Vulgar Latin *pilucc?re, *pilic?re, a derivative of Latin pil?re (“to deprive of hair, make bald, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). The Oxford English Dictionary, however, finds difficulties with this and cites gaps in historical evidence.

The noun sense of "heart, liver, and lights of an animal" comes from it being plucked out of the carcass after the animal is killed; the sense of "fortitude, boldness" derives from this meaning, originally being a boxing slang denoting a prize-ring, with semantic development from "heart", the symbol of courage, to "fortitude, boldness".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

pluck (third-person singular simple present plucks, present participle plucking, simple past and past participle plucked or (obsolete) pluckt)

1. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Ch.I:

     The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined.
2. (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
3. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.

4. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
5. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly

6. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.

7. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.

8. (Britain, college slang, obsolete) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
9. Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.

Derived terms

• plucker
• plucking
• pluck up

Translations

Noun

pluck (countable and uncountable, plural plucks)

1. An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
   • 2006, Tom Cunliffe, Complete Yachtmaster (page 40)

     If you find yourself in this position, there is nothing for it but to haul out using external assistance. This may be from a friend who will give you a pluck off the wall, or you may be able to manage from your own resources.

2. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
4. (informal, figuratively, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:courage

5. (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.

   Synonym: plonk

Derived terms

• plucky

Translations

References

• pluck in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pluck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• UK plc

English

Alternative forms

• stomack (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (stómakhos), from ????? (stóma, “mouth”).

Displaced native Middle English bouk, buc (“belly, stomach”) from Old English b?c (“belly, stomach”); largely displaced Middle English mawe, maghe, ma?e (“stomach, maw”) from Old English maga (“stomach, maw”). More at bucket and maw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?m?k/

Noun

stomach (countable and uncountable, plural stomachs)

1. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
2. (informal) The belly.

   Synonyms: belly, abdomen, tummy, (obsolete) bouk, gut, guts, (archaic) maw

3. (uncountable, obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].

   • 1613, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth, IV. ii. 34:

     He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;

   • This sort of crying […] proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.

4. (obsolete) Appetite.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, I. ii. 50:

     You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 920-922,^[1]

     HOST. How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe?

     EUMENIDES. Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack.

   • , II.ii.1.2:

     If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach, let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.

5. (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).

Derived terms

Related terms

• stomachic
• stomachal

Translations

Verb

stomach (third-person singular simple present stomachs, present participle stomaching, simple past and past participle stomached)

1. (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Let a man, though never so justly, oppose himself unto them that are disordered in their ways; and what one amongst them commonly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at reproof, and hate such as would reform them?

3. (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. iv. 12:

     O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.

Synonyms

• (to tolerate): brook, put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to be angry):
• (to resent): See also Thesaurus:dislike

Derived terms

• stomachable
• unstomachable

Translations

Anagrams

• Satchmo

Middle English

Noun

stomach

1. Alternative form of stomak