stummy

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/ˈstʌm.i/

noun

The stomach, tummy.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounstummy (plural stummies)

plural stummies

  1. childishcolloquialThe stomach, tummy.

    I sucked my stummy in some and replied, […]

    2000, The 1898 Baseball Fe-As-Ko, page 173
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    "Poor Stummy [which playful Term means Stomach], he gits Sick."

    1859, Jacques Maurice, James Willard Morris, K.N. Pepper, and other condiments, page 233

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

    1879, Graeme Mercer Adam; George Stewart, eds, The Canadian Monthly, volume 2, page 527

    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 ...

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

    I'm so soft (pointing to herself) in my stummy.

    1909, The Pedagogical Seminary, page 89

Origin

Originally a clipping of stomach + -y. Now seen as a blend of stomach and tummy.

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APA

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