tummy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tummy (plural tummies)
- (colloquial, often childish) Stomach or belly.
- Synonym: belly
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
- "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp."
- 2013, Warren Ellis; Nick Cave (lyrics), “Jubilee Street”, in Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
- I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain / And a ten ton catastrophe on a 60 pound chain
- (US, slang) Protruding belly, paunch.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:paunch
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- belly (referring to abdomen, not stomach)
Translations[edit]
childish language for stomach
belly