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tum tum

tum tum is the alternative form of tum-tum.

tum tum is the alternative form of tumtum.

Meaning of tum-tum

Noun (1)

tum-tum (plural tum-tums)

  1. (India) A dog cart; a rickshaw; a kind of vehicle.
    • An optimistic old man was our driver; he needed all his optimism too, for his tum-tum was one of the most rickety I've seen , and his little pony very tiny. The balance of this vehicle was most important; we had to sit in certain definite positions ...1914, Alice Maud Pennell, Pennell of the Afghan Frontier: The Life of Theodore Leighton Pennell, M.D., B. SC., F.R.C.S. Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India, page 414

Noun (2)

tum-tum (uncountable)

  1. A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain in a wooden mortar until it is soft.

Noun (3)

tum-tum (plural tum-tums)

  1. (childish, informal) Stomach.
    • Can't eat - my tum-tum's hurting.
  2. (childish, informal) Abdomen.
    • The dog likes having its tum-tum rubbed.

Meaning of tumtum

Noun (1)

tumtum (plural tumtums)

  1. (Judaism) One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite, possibly intersex.
    • Therefore, if a man died leaving a son and a tumtum or a hermaphrodyte, the son inherits everything, since the heirship of the tumtum or of the hermaphrodyte is doubtful.1949 (printing), Maimonides, The Code of Maimonides: The Book of Civil Laws, p. 273
  2. (Judaism, broadly, rare) A Jewish person who is also non-binary and/or intersex.

Noun (2)

tumtum (plural tumtums)

  1. A toombah, a type of small drum used in the traditional music of Antigua and Barbuda.

Forms of tum tum

pluraltum tums

Questions about tum tum

What is tum tum the alternative form of?
Tum tum is the alternative form of tum-tum.

Words near tum tum in the dictionary

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

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