tummy

Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌ.mi/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmi

tummy (plural tummies)

1. (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

2. (US, slang) Protruding belly, paunch.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:paunch

3. (informal) A woman's uterus, especially in reference to where a baby is carried.

• gyppy tummy
• tummyache
• tummy button
• tummy time
• tummy tuck

• belly (referring to abdomen, not stomach)