Meaning

3 senses
  1. (childish, colloquial, often)The stomach or belly.

  2. The stomach or belly.

    (US, childish, colloquial, often, slang)A protruding belly, paunch.

    Bäuchlein, Bauch, Bäuchlein

    живо́тикživótik, пу́зикоpúziko, брю́шкоbrjúško

    живі́тžyvít

    slang for a paunch

  3. (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 sentences
  1. Mommy, I have a tummy ache.

    ruМамочка, у меня животик бобо.

    deMami, ich habe Bauchweh!

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  2. My tummy is not happy today.

    deMeinem Bauch geht es heute nicht gut.

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  3. I could hear my tummy rumbling.

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  4. Rima's kiss gave me butterflies in my tummy.

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  5. My tummy is aching from laughing so hard.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
belly:
Русский
By meaning 2
childish language for stomach:
belly:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
childish language for stomach:
belly:

Origin

Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee

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

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