tummie

plural tummies

1. rareRare spelling of tummy.

   A chic little dress, also of black cotton, had a rainbow-striped banding over the tummie.

   1943 May 11, Virginia Pope, “Cotton Styles, Both Sturdy and Feminine, Are Displayed by ‘Farmerettes’ at Show”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2025

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   They like candy pretty well, and visitors like to give it to them, but it doesn’t agree with Indian children, and the most stoical little papoose is found weeping real tears when it has a bad ache in its poor little “tummie.”

   1914 May 3, “Indian Women Solve an Old Sex Question: Squaws Prove Conclusively that Females Dress to Satisfy the Males of the Race”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2025

   Even slim figures can have a little tummie problem. So Olga invents WUNDER-PANTS®—the first soft all-stretch underpants to do something neat for tummies.

   1975 February 24, Tobias, “Olga”, in Statesville Record & Landmark, volume 101, number 47, Statesville, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6-A, column 7