stummy
English
Etymology
Shortening of stomach.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstʌm.i/
- Rhymes: -ʌmi
Noun
stummy (plural stummies)
- (colloquial, chiefly obsolete) stomach, tummy
- 1896, Exposures of Quackery Being a Series of Articles Upon, and Analyses Of, Various Patent Medicines, Volumes 1-2, page 136:
- One little Cowes boy,/ His “stummy” felt so bad;/ Fennings gave him but one dose,/ And that settled the —/ Confound it! Our pen has suddenly become prosaic again; neither “ stomach-ache” nor “ bowel complaint ” will rhyme to “bad,” and we ...
- 1909, The Pedagogical Seminary, page 89:
- I'm so soft (pointing to herself) in my stummy.
- 2000, The 1898 Baseball Fe-As-Ko, page 173:
- I sucked my stummy in some and replied, […]
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