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tummy

[tuhm-ee]

noun

Informal.

plural

tummies 
  1. stomach.

    The baby had a pain in his tummy.



tummy

/ ˈʌɪ /

noun

  1. an informal or childish word for stomach

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of tummy1

First recorded in 1865–70; nursery alteration of stomach
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I used to love it, and now my tummy is too middle-aged for it.

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Australia are the favourites here, but this was a baring of teeth - the Proteas are not going to roll over and have their tummies tickled.

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"I'd just come over the age of 50 and I was starting to put these pains down to the menopause, I thought that probably what my uncomfortable tummy was," Mrs Cook explained.

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Hoards of hungry children with rumbling tummies are a common sight in school dinner halls, and a new exhibition has opened in Suffolk telling the stories of those lunchtime tastes and aromas - good or bad.

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It's been a relentless stream of colds and coughs and one explosive tummy.

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