tummy
The stomach or bellyThe stomach or belly.
» Mommy, I have a tummy ache.
Mami, ich habe Bauchweh!
Мамочка, у меня животик бобо.
Meaning
3 senses(childish, colloquial, often)The stomach or belly.
The stomach or belly.
(US, childish, colloquial, often, slang)A protruding belly, paunch.
Bäuchlein, Bauch, Bäuchlein
живо́тикživótik, пу́зикоpúziko, брю́шкоbrjúško
живі́тžyvít
slang for a paunch
(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).
Examples
18 sentencesMommy, I have a tummy ache.
ruМамочка, у меня животик бобо.
deMami, ich habe Bauchweh!
My tummy is not happy today.
deMeinem Bauch geht es heute nicht gut.
I could hear my tummy rumbling.
Rima's kiss gave me butterflies in my tummy.
My tummy is aching from laughing so hard.
Translations
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Origin
Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare tweeImitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee and pasghetti for similar phonetic reductions.
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Forms
plural: tummiesSynonyms
22 synonyms- an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion:stomachtumbreadbasket
- slang for a paunch:potpotbellybay windowcorporation