tum tum

See also: tum-tum and tumtum

English

Noun

tum tum (plural tum tums)

1. Alternative form of tum-tum (“tummy”)
   • 1865, Punch, page 155:

     (Turns towards me, opens his eyes and mouth, and hums the REPRISE somewhere down in his throat.) […] Friend No. 1 (stopping in his tum tum tum). What's he say?

2. Alternative form of tum-tum (“kind of vehicle”)
3. Alternative form of tumtum (“kind of drum”)
   • 2017, Dale A. Olsen, Daniel E. Sheehy, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, Routledge, →ISBN:

     The toombah, a drum with tin jingles and shells, accompanied songs and dances of Africans on Antigua. A report in 1844 mentions the “tum tum” (toombah) and […]

Anagrams

• mut. mut.