tummy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee and pasghetti for similar phonetic reductions.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtʌ.mi/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌmi
Noun
[edit]tummy (plural tummies)
- (colloquial, often childish) Stomach or belly.
- Synonym: belly
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "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, “Jubilee Street”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics), 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
- 2019 December 16, Chesca & J Hause, “The Lies”, in Litter Box Comics[1]:
- Oh man —pal! You didn't swallow that gum, did you?? It stays in your tummy for seven years and all the other bad stuff sticks to it and then a doctor has to cut it out with an axe!
- (US, slang) Protruding belly, paunch.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:paunch
- (euphemistic) In reference to where a baby is carried, the abdomen, or specifically the womb, especially of a woman, but also of animals in general (usually mammals).
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- belly (referring to abdomen, not stomach)
Translations
[edit]childish language for stomach
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belly
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