tummy

noun
/ˈtʌ.mi/

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. The stomach or belly.

    • "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp."
    • I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain / And a ten ton catastrophe on a 60 pound chain
    • 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!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tummy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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