tummy
Plural: tummies
Noun
- A childlike or informal term for the stomach or abdomen.
- slang for a paunch
- an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
- Stomach or belly.
- Stomach or belly.
- Protruding belly, paunch.
- Stomach or belly.
- In 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).
Examples
- After eating too many snacks during the game, his TUMMY started to hurt.
Origin / Etymology
Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee and pasghetti for similar phonetic reductions.
Synonyms
bay window, breadbasket, corporation, pot, potbelly, stomach, tum, Buddha belly, German goitre, Milwaukee goiter, Molson muscle, beer baby, beer belly, beer gut, beer muscles, belly, gorbelly, paunch, spare tire, swagbelly, tummy
Scrabble Score: 12
tummy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtummy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tummy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary