Meanings
plural stummies
- childishcolloquialThe stomach, tummy.
I sucked my stummy in some and replied, […]
2000, The 1898 Baseball Fe-As-Ko, page 1734 more examples
"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 527One 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 136I'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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