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tummy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtʌ.mi/
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Etymology

Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee and pasghetti for similar phonetic reductions.

Meanings

1. (childish, colloquial, often) The stomach or belly.
   • 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! 2019 December 16, Chesca & J Hause, “The Lies”, in Litter Box Comics:
   • ALAN [to DISART]: It was terrible. We had to walk home. Four miles. I got the shakes. / DYSART: You were scared too? / ALAN [to DYSART]: It was like a hole had been drilled in my tummy. A hole—right there. And the air was getting in! 1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 30”, in Equus, page 94:
   • "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp." 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
   • I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain / And a ten ton catastrophe on a 60 pound chain 2013, “Jubilee Street”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
2. (US, childish, colloquial, often, slang) The stomach or belly. ▸ A protruding belly, paunch.
3. (childish, colloquial, euphemistic, often) The stomach or belly. ▸ 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).

Forms

Deriveds

gyppy tummy · tummied · tummy tuck · jiffy tummy · tummyache · tummy button · tummy time · tum

Relateds

belly · stommy

Synonyms

belly · belly · beer baby · German goitre · spare tire · pooch · gorbelly · belly · Molson muscle · potbelly · tummy · pot · paunch · corporation · Milwaukee goiter · beer gut · beer belly · swagbelly · Buddha belly · bay window · beer muscles

Translations (42)

pt barriga (belly) · ru пу́зо (belly) · es bidón (childish language for stomach) · eo ventreto (belly) · it pancino (childish language for stomach) · tr göbüş (childish language for stomach) · uk живі́т (belly) · cs bříško (childish language for stomach) · de Bäuchlein (belly) · fi vatsa (belly) · fi masu (childish language for stomach) · hu pocak (childish language for stomach) · fi massu (childish language for stomach) · vo bälid (belly) · cy bola (belly) · ru брю́шко (childish language for stomach) · ru живо́тик (childish language for stomach) · pdt Buck (nds) (belly) · hu hasikó (childish language for stomach) · tpi bel (belly) · vo bälidil (belly) · is mallakútur (childish language for stomach) · bg шкембе (belly) · hu poci (childish language for stomach) · de Bauch (belly) · cy bol (belly) · es barriguita (belly) · ja ぽんぽん (childish language for stomach) · bg тумбаче (childish language for stomach) · fr bidon (childish language for stomach) · ru брю́хо (belly) · es barriga (belly) · it pancia (childish language for stomach) · ru пу́зико (childish language for stomach) · eo ventro (belly) · fi maha (belly) · es bola (belly) · is malli (childish language for stomach) · pl brzuszek (childish language for stomach) · de Bäuchlein (childish language for stomach) · ru брю́шко (belly) · ru живо́т (belly)