stummy

English

Etymology

Shortening of stomach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstʌm.i/
• Rhymes: -ʌmi

Noun

stummy (plural stummies)

1. (colloquial, chiefly obsolete) stomach, tummy
   • 1859, Jacques Maurice, James Willard Morris, K.N. Pepper, and other condiments‎^[1], page 233:

     "Poor Stummy [which playful Term means Stomach], he gits Sick."

   • 1879, Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart, eds, The Canadian Monthly‎^[2], volume 2, page 527:

     'I like my little stummy,' he had once frankly observed, on being rallied on his devotion to the delicacies of the table.

   • 1896, Exposures of Quackery Being a Series of Articles Upon, and Analyses Of, Various Patent Medicines, Volumes 1-2‎^[3], page 136:

     One little Cowes boy,/ His “stummy” felt so bad;/ Fennings gave him but one dose,/ And that settled the —/ Confound it! Our pen has suddenly become prosaic again; neither “ stomach-ache” nor “ bowel complaint ” will rhyme to “bad,” and we ...

   • 1909, The Pedagogical Seminary, page 89:

     I'm so soft (pointing to herself) in my stummy.

   • 2000, The 1898 Baseball Fe-As-Ko, page 173:

     I sucked my stummy in some and replied, […]

Derived terms

• tummy