tummy
English
Etymology
Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʌ.mi/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌmi
Noun
tummy (plural tummies)
- (colloquial, often childish) Stomach or belly.
- Synonym: belly
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World:
- "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp."
- 2013, Warren Ellis; Nick Cave (lyrics), “Jubilee Street”, in 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
- (US, slang) Protruding belly, paunch.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:paunch
- (informal) A woman's uterus, especially in reference to where a baby is carried.
Derived terms
- gyppy tummy
- tummyache
- tummy button
- tummy time
- tummy tuck
Related terms
- belly (referring to abdomen, not stomach)
Translations
childish language for stomach
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belly
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