tummy

Etymology

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

noun

  1. (colloquial, often childish) Stomach or belly.
    I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain / And a ten ton catastrophe on a 60 pound chain 2013, “Jubilee Street”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  2. (US, slang) Protruding belly, paunch.
  3. (informal) A woman's uterus, especially in reference to where a baby is carried.

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