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tum-tum

noun

Etymology

Borrowed fom Twi Akan tumtum (“mashed green bananas”). Compare Sranan Tongo tonton (“mashed plantain dumpling”).

  1. borrowed from tumtum

Definitions

  1. A dog cart

    A dog cart; a rickshaw; a kind of vehicle.

    • His fellow assistant, Dr Panna Lal, was in ecstasies at the prospect, and was urgent that they should attend it together in his new tum-tum.

  2. A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain in a wooden mortar until it is…

    A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain in a wooden mortar until it is soft.

  3. Stomach.

    • Can't eat - my tum-tum's hurting.
    • Take a little food and stir in some GASTRIC JUICE, which is made fresh daily by the 35 million glands that line your tum-tum.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Abdomen.

      • The dog likes having its tum-tum rubbed.
      • The Internet is full of sites where you can buy everything you need to make a plaster mold of your tum-tum.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA