tummy

plural tummies · alternative rare tummie

1. childishcolloquialoftenThe 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

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   "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp."

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

   ALAN [to DISART]: It was terrible. We had to walk home. Four miles. I got the shakes. / DYSART: You were scared too? / ALAN [to DYSART]: It was like a hole had been drilled in my tummy. A hole—right there. And the air was getting in!

   1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 30”, in Equus, page 94

   Oh man —pal! You didn't swallow that gum, did you?? It stays in your tummy for seven years and all the other bad stuff sticks to it and then a doctor has to cut it out with an axe!

   2019 December 16, Chesca & J Hause, “The Lies”, in Litter Box Comics

   Synonyms: belly

   1. USchildishcolloquialoftenslangA protruding belly, paunch.

      Synonyms: belly, bay window, beer baby, beer belly, beer gut, beer muscles, Buddha belly, corporation

   2. childishcolloquialeuphemisticoftenIn reference to where a baby is carried, the abdomen, or specifically the womb, especially of a woman, but also of animals in general (usually mammals).

      Synonyms: belly