tummy

Language

English

Alternative forms

tummie (rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

tummy (plural tummies)Category:English lemmas#TUMMY Category:English nouns#TUMMY Category:English countable nouns#TUMMY Category:English entries with incorrect language header#TUMMY Category:Pages with entries#TUMMY Category:Pages with 1 entry#TUMMY

(colloquial Category:English colloquialisms#TUMMY, often childish) The 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."
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- 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
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- 2019 December 16, Chesca & J Hause, “The Lies”, in Litter Box Comics‎:
  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!
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1. (US Category:American English#TUMMY, slang Category:English slang#TUMMY) A protruding belly, paunch.
  Synonyms: see Thesaurus:paunch
2. (euphemistic Category:English euphemisms#TUMMY) 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

Related terms

stommy

Translations

childish language for stomach

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Bulgarian: тумбаче n (tumbače)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#TUMMY
Czech: bříško (cs) nCategory:Terms with Czech translations#TUMMY
Finnish: masu (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#TUMMY, massu (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#TUMMY
French: bidon (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#TUMMY
German: Bäuchlein (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#TUMMY
Hungarian: pocak (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#TUMMY, poci (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#TUMMY, hasikóCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#TUMMY
Icelandic: malli mCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#TUMMY, mallakútur mCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#TUMMY
Italian: pancia (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#TUMMY, pancino mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#TUMMY
Japanese: ぽんぽん (ja) (ponpon)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#TUMMY
Polish: brzuszek (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#TUMMY
Russian: живо́тик (ru) m (živótik)Category:Terms with Russian translations#TUMMY, пу́зико (ru) n (púziko)Category:Terms with Russian translations#TUMMY, брю́шко (ru) n (brjúško)Category:Terms with Russian translations#TUMMY
Spanish: bidón (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#TUMMY
Turkish: göbüşCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#TUMMY

belly

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Bulgarian: шкембе (bg) n (škembe)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#TUMMY
Esperanto: ventro (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#TUMMY, (diminutive) ventretoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#TUMMY
Finnish: maha (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#TUMMY, vatsa (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#TUMMY
German: Bauch (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#TUMMY, (diminutive) Bäuchlein (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#TUMMY
Plautdietsch: Buck (nds) mCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#TUMMY
Portuguese: barriga (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#TUMMY
Russian: живо́т (ru) m (živót)Category:Terms with Russian translations#TUMMY, пу́зо (ru) n (púzo)Category:Terms with Russian translations#TUMMY, брю́хо (ru) n (brjúxo)Category:Terms with Russian translations#TUMMY, брю́шко (ru) n (brjúško)Category:Terms with Russian translations#TUMMY
Spanish: barriga (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#TUMMY, (diminutive) barriguita fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#TUMMY, bola (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#TUMMY
Tok Pisin: bel (tpi)Category:Terms with Tok Pisin translations#TUMMY
Ukrainian: живі́т (uk) m (žyvít)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#TUMMY
Volapük: bälid (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#TUMMY, (diminutive) bälidilCategory:Terms with Volapük translations#TUMMY
Welsh: bola (cy) mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#TUMMY, bol (cy) mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#TUMMY

See also

belly (referring to the abdomen, not the stomach)

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