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1867 W. S. Gilbert in Fun 28 Sept. 242/1 Why should I hesitate to own That pain was in his little tummy?

1884 R. Kipling Let. ?Sept. in Ld. Birkenhead Rudyard Kipling (1978) vi. 74 I felt the cramps in my legs dying out and my tummy more settled.

1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xxxvii The juvenile rebel, slapping his shining tummy contentedly.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 347 Cissy poked him..out of fun in his wee fat tummy.

1936 N. Streatfeild Ballet Shoes iii. 40 Laughing so much that they fell on the floor, and their tummies ached.

1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire 191 That was Dad's tummy, I think—not a spook.

1979 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Fall 14 The bucks..lie napping with heads tucked against tummies like so many dogs.

1888 R. Kipling Story of Gadsbys (1889) 21 He has nothing more than a wet weather tummy.

1937 F. Stark Let. 25 Oct. in Coast of Incense (1953) 177 I am spending these five days rather tiresomely in hospital with a tummy.

1939 R. 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 A. Moorehead Year of Battle i. 22 Few set foot in Egypt without contracting ‘Gyppy Tummy’ which is a mild stomach disorder lasting usually a couple of days. It recurs at irregular intervals and it makes you feel terrible.

1959 L. Durrell in Sunday Times 27 Dec. 13/1 The Mediterranean affliction of high summer known to us all as ‘tummy’ (Egyptian, Greek or Naples tummy).

1970 N. Marsh When in Rome iv. 97 A sudden onslaught of the affliction known to tourists as Roman Tummy..necessitated an immediate withdrawal.

1979 A. V. Badgley Rembrandt Decisions (1980) ix. 119 He's sick... Says he's got ‘Bombay Tummy’.

1974 G. Butler Coffin for Canary x. 133 My waist and tummy muscles are really taut.

1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xvi. 238 He really has had a bad tummy pain.

1947 G. Greene 19 Stories 192 It was the doctors who called his complaint Borborygmi: in England we usually call it just ‘tummy rumbles’.

1982 N. Marsh Light Thickens iii. 91 His tummy rumbles are positively deafening.

1937 W. 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.

1926 A. Huxley Let. 21 Oct. (1969) 274 Matthew meanwhile flourishes..in spite of a tummy upset.

1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. viii. 284 Kit had tummyache this morning.

1979 L. Brown & 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.

1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left xvii. 121 We're rather below strength... Some sort of tummy bug.

1945 A. Huxley Time must have Stop (new ed.) ii. 13 Everybody's tummy-button grew inwards like that.