/ˈtʌ.mi/
OriginImitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee and pasghetti for similar phonetic reductions.
- childish, colloquial, oftenThe 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!”
- US, childish, colloquial, often, slangA protruding belly, paunch.
- childish, colloquial, euphemistic, oftenIn 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).
Formstummies(plural) · tummie(alternative, rare)