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tum

/tʌm/

tum noun: shortened form of tummy.

Noun

tum (plural tums)

  1. shortened form of tummy
    • For here am I without a crumb
      To satisfy a raging tum--
      O what an oversight!"
      As he was indulging in these melancholy reflexions he came round a bend in the road, and discovered two people in the very act of having lunch.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 18
    • We left the telephone, walked up two small flights of stairs, and opened the front door as, believe it or not, the car with three policemen in it was just pulling up. I mention this amazing promptitude hoping that it will be a comfort to timorous souls whose tums turn over when things go bump in...1949 February 19, Charles, “My Column”, in Bristol Evening Post, number 5,224, Bristol, →OCLC, page 2, columns 2–3
    Synonyms:
    tum-tum

Proper noun capitalized: TUM

TUM

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Technical University of Munich.

tum meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

tum in Tamil

டும்

tum in Telugu

టుమ్

tum in Malayalam

തും

Synonyms of tum

Forms of tum

pluraltums

Plural of tum: tums

Phrases with tum

Words that rhyme with tum

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Questions about tum

What does tum mean?
Tum means shortened form of tummy.
What is tum in Tamil?
Tum in Tamil is டும். See Tum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tum?
Tum can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tum?
Tum is pronounced /tʌm/.
What is the plural of tum?
The plural of tum is tums.

Words near tum in the dictionary

  1. Tuluá
  2. tulwar
  3. tulwars
  4. tulwaur
  5. tulwaurs
  6. tum
  7. tum tum
  8. tum tums
  9. tum-tum
  10. tum-tums
  11. Tuma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tum (page history and authors); TUM (page history and authors); tum (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tum (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tum (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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