Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal The human stomach or belly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as tum.
Wiktionary
- n. stomach
- n. US (slang) A protruding belly; a paunch.
WordNet 3.0
- n. slang for a paunch
- n. an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
Etymologies
- Shortened form of stomach, via archaic colloquialism stommy. (Wiktionary)
- Baby-talk alteration of stomach. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I made some mac and cheese to hold me over, but my poor tummy has been empty since this morning. * pats tummy* There there, food comin!”
“Obviously, the tummy tuck blogger finds (or steals) tummy references for his blog and cuts and pastes in tummy tuck and liposuction surgery every time the word tummy is mentioned.”
“My 3 year old son was in the shower with me the other day and he poked my stomach and said “Mommy your tummy is all jiggly, why is your tummy all jiggly???”.”
“Dr Erin Symonds is studying what she calls "tummy taste buds" that suppress appetite and show potential for drug therapy.”
“I look at it and think of your tummy – not that I think your tummy is jelly like and almost transparent in colour mind!”
“He needs lots of loves and it's really a bummer that what would comfort him the most, his mom's tummy, is off the menu.”
“June 5, 2008 3: 14 AM lol! my personal favorites be: my tummy is paining me o please don't rubish me o nice blog!”
“And my adorable house cat, Mister Whiskers, has gone off to barf up a hair ball on the carpet, because his tummy is upset, even after eating his simple breakfast of lake trout steamed in its own skin.”
“Amazing, how five minutes after his big brothers left his tummy is well enough to be bouncing around the bedroom playing ninja.”
“My tummy is grumbling and this looks flat out amazing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tummy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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EN - baby talk
neigh-neigh, super-duper, mumbo-jumbo, silly-billy, okey-dokey, topsy-turvy, binkie-winkie, ba-ba, bot-bot, pom-pom, kaka, aye-aye and 84 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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punnything's Words
existentialist, configure, numismatist, autumnal, desist, ennui, taciturn, vacillate, naivete, bloodletting, tete-a-tete, concentric and 274 more...
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words I don't like very much
many frequently used by moms; words that sound dirtier than they are
crisp, grunge, cuddle, puke, smear, voucher, manipulate, fodder, coddle, fecund, chunk, hunk and 71 more...
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sound-pretty sounds
words that are beautiful, whether because of sound, meaning, or both.
anomaly, procreate, caboose, linguistics, unapologetic, spontaneity, skittish, cygnet, decimate, harrowing, frumpy, woebegone and 53 more...
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You Say Tomato, I Say Pimp
Words that I absolutely hate( or just a little).
guffaw, preggers, ain't, malleable, ya'll, gunk, umpteen, gradient, panties, tummy, gauche, ornery and 3 more...
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Andre's list
porch, tantrum, temper tantrum, act up, pushchair, fussy eater, laps, sit on a lap, stacking blocks, pull toy, waddle, cranky and 46 more...
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adorable words
These are all cute.
bunny, bunnies, pie, bubble, owlet, fluff, squishy, bonbon, muffin, puddle, puppy, peach and 11 more...
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Duo3.0
aptitude, doctrine, lean on, renown, eminent, trail, perplexity, bewilderment, ardent, zealous, foyer, obstruct and 81 more...
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Cute
yummy, drownded, tummy, tigger, belly button, spöka, squeak, wheedle, snuggle, paw, squishy, fuzzy and 2 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tummy.
yarb No way is the skin outside the body! The skin is a part of the body! May 18, 2008
vanishedone Not exactly, because the exterior surface of the skin is the outside boundary of the body. May 18, 2008
kewpid The Skin is considered an organ, and it is outside the body :) May 18, 2008
yarb Weirdnet's fourth definition: as opposed to outside? May 18, 2008
sonnyjoefoxx Yuck. I prefer stomach or chest or anything you can find in a thesaurus. May 18, 2008