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tummy

/ˈtʌ.mi/

tummy noun: the stomach or belly.

Noun

tummy (plural tummies)

  1. (childish, colloquial, often) The stomach or belly.
    • "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
    Synonyms:
    belly
    1. (US, childish, colloquial, often, slang) A protruding belly, paunch.
    2. (childish, colloquial, euphemistic, often) 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).

tummy meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Punjabi

tummy in Urdu

tummy
شکم śikam

tummy in Malayalam

abdomen, stomach, belly
വയർ, ഉദരം, വയറ്, വിഷ്ഠ, വിഷ്ടി, ആമാശയം

tummy in Punjabi

tummy; diminutive of ਢਿੱਡ
ਢਿੱਡੀ ḍhiḍḍī

Examples of tummy in a sentence

  • I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain / And a ten ton catastrophe on a 60 pound chain2013, “Jubilee Street”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
  • 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:

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Synonyms of tummy

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Forms of tummy

pluraltummies
alternative form (rare)tummie

Origin of tummy

Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee and pasghetti for similar phonetic reductions.

Words formed from tummy

Phrases with tummy

Words that rhyme with tummy

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Questions about tummy

What does tummy mean?
Tummy means the stomach or belly.
What is tummy in Urdu?
Tummy in Urdu is شکم (śikam). See Tummy meaning in Urdu.
How do you use tummy in a sentence?
I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain / And a ten ton catastrophe on a 60 pound chain
What part of speech is tummy?
Tummy is a noun.
How do you pronounce tummy?
Tummy is pronounced /ˈtʌ.mi/.
What is the plural of tummy?
The plural of tummy is tummies.

Words near tummy in the dictionary

  1. tummler
  2. tummlers
  3. tummo
  4. tummock
  5. tummocks
  6. tummy
  7. tummy ache
  8. tummy aches
  9. tummy button
  10. tummy buttons
  11. tummy time

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tummy (page history and authors); شکم (Urdu) (page history and authors); tummy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ਢਿੱਡੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). 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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