stummy

stummy

English

Etymology

Shortening of stomach.

Noun

stummy (plural stummies)

1. (colloquial, obsolete) stomach, tummy
   • 1859 Jacques Maurice and James Willard Morris: K.N. Pepper, and other condiments, p.233:

     "Poor Stummy [which playful Term means Stomach], he gits Sick."

   • 1879 Graeme Mercer Adam and George Stewart, eds: The Canadian Monthly vol.2 p527:

     'I like my little stummy,' he had once frankly observed, on being rallied on his devotion to the delicacies of the table.

   • 1896 Exposures of Quackery: Being a Series of Articles Upon, and Analyses Of, Various Patent Medicines, Volumes 1-2 p.136:

     One little Cowes boy,/ His “stummy” felt so bad;/ Fennings gave him but one dose,/ And that settled the —/ Confound it! Our pen has suddenly become prosaic again; neither “ stomach-ache” nor “ bowel complaint ” will rhyme to “bad,” and we ...

Derived terms

• tummy