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
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
Derived
gyppy tummy, jiffy tummy, tum, tummyache, tummy button, tummy time, tummy tuck
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