tummy
nomcourant dans les dialogues
- //ˈtʌ.mi//
The stomach or belly.
nom
- 1
The stomach or belly.
"So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp."
ALAN [to DISART]: It was terrible. We had to walk home. Four miles. I got the shakes. / DYSART: You were scared too? / ALAN [to DYSART]: It was like a hole had been drilled in my tummy. A hole—right there. And the air was getting in!
I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain / And a ten ton catastrophe on a 60 pound chain
Oh man —pal! You didn't swallow that gum, did you?? It stays in your tummy for seven years and all the other bad stuff sticks to it and then a doctor has to cut it out with an axe!
- 2
argotThe stomach or belly. A protruding belly, paunch.
- 3
The stomach or belly. 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).
Étymologie
Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee and pasghetti for similar phonetic reductions.
Formes
- pluriel
- tummies