stomach n OED ~ sb 10 b ~ sick (1613-1664) for sense 2.
1 The lungs, esp if congested (1925 Dial Notes v, 344).
1924 ENGLAND 210 'I ain't bodily sick, sir, but I got a sore stummick.' Investigation revealed that the men's stummicks were always their lungs. So after I had painted one stummick and brought the man out of bronchitis or something, others began to come. P 245-61 I've got a rattling on the stomach. T 222-66 When people had bad colds on their chest, they used to say they had 'wonderful impression on their stomach.'
2 Comb stomach-sick: nauseated; sick to one's stomach.
P 148-64 I'm not stomach-sick-just a head-ache. 1975 Evening Telegram 23 Aug, p. 14 I was often on a trip and the poor mortals would make your heart bleed, right stummick sick, and their poor eyes as heavy as lead. 1976 GUY 26 Delights now streaming down upon the heads of outharbour juveniles, awash and brimming over, blinding as the sun before dinner and as dizzying as a game of 'Turning Around and Around Until We Gets Stomach Sick.'
