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tummy colloq.|ˈtʌmɪ|
[Repr. a childish alteration of stomach: see -y6.]
The stomach or intestine.
1869W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads 200 Why should I hesitate to own That pain was in his little tummy? 1884Kipling Let. ? Sept. in Ld. Birkenhead Rudyard Kipling (1978) vi. 74, I felt the cramps in my legs dying out and my tummy more settled. 1922Joyce Ulysses 356 Cissy poked him..out of fun in his wee fat tummy. 1936N. Streatfeild Ballet Shoes iii. 40 Laughing so much that they fell on the floor, and their tummies ached. 1962V. Nabokov Pale Fire 191 That was Dad's tummy, I think—not a spook. 1979Beautiful British Columbia Fall 14 The bucks..lie napping with heads tucked against tummies like so many dogs.
2. An abdominal pain or complaint. Freq. with preceding place-name: diarrhœa suffered by visitors there.
1888Kipling Story of Gadsbys (1889) 21 He has nothing more than a wet weather tummy. 1937F. Stark Let. 25 Oct. in Coast of Incense (1953) 177, I am spending these five days rather tiresomely in hospital with a tummy. 1939R. Godden Black Narcissus vi. 77 ‘Sister Briony..thinks it must be some local infection, as we all have it.’.. ‘Darjeeling tummy,’ said Mr. Dean. 1943, etc. [see gippy 1 c]. 1959L. Durrell Spirit of Place (1969) 423 The Mediterranean affliction of high summer known to us all as ‘tummy’ (Egyptian, Greek or Naples tummy). 1970N. Marsh When in Rome iv. 97 A sudden onslaught of the affliction known to tourists as Roman Tummy..necessitated an immediate withdrawal. 1979A. V. Badgley Rembrandt Decisions (1980) ix. 119 He's sick... Says he's got ‘Bombay Tummy’.
3. attrib. as tummy muscle, tummy pain, tummy rumble, tummy trouble, tummy upset; tummy ache, an abdominal pain; tummy bug, (a germ causing) a disorder of the stomach; tummy-button = navel n. 1.
1926Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. viii. 284 Kit had tummyache this morning. 1979L. & J. Brown Our Miracle called Louise iii. 35 ‘I've got a tummy ache,’ I told her. ‘It will be gone in the morning,’ she said.
1969M. Pugh Last Place Left xvii. 121 We're rather below strength... Some sort of tummy bug.
1945A. Huxley Time must have a Stop ii. 13 Everybody's tummy-button grew inwards like that. 1974G. Butler Coffin for Canary x. 133 My waist and tummy muscles are really taut.
1924J. Buchan Three Hostages xvi. 238 He really has had a bad tummy pain. 1947G. Greene Nineteen Stories 192 It was the doctors who called his complaint Borborygmi: in England we usually call it just ‘tummy rumbles’. 1982N. Marsh Light Thickens iii. 91 His tummy rumbles are positively deafening.
1937W. H. S. Smith Let. 12 Jan. in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 51 My tummy trouble persisted for several days after my return to Madaripur.
1926A. Huxley Let. 21 Oct. (1969) 274 Matthew meanwhile flourishes..in spite of a tummy upset.
▸ tummy tuck n. an abdominoplasty.
1973Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 23 Mar. 3/6 She said the surgery..was a ‘*tummy tuck’ to tighten abdominal skin. 2005Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Aug. 141/4 My girlfriend had a tummy tuck to get rid of her belly. |