Stomach can be shortened to “tummy” informally. The phrase “Aw, do you have a tummy ache?” is typically used while speaking to young children.
While you might use the phrase “tummy” when watching your niece, who is two years old, you wouldn’t use it in your human anatomy class. In order to build their neck and shoulder muscles, infants occasionally spend “tummy time,” which is a brief amount of time spent on their tummies. Since the 19th century, the term “tummy” has been in use, and experts believe it derives from a childlike pronunciation of the word “stomach.”
Definitions of tummy
1.noun slang for a paunch
synonyms: bay window, corporation, pot, potbelly
type of: belly, paunch
a protruding abdomen
2.noun an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
synonyms :breadbasket, stomach, tum
types: show 5 types…
type of: internal organ, viscus
a main organ that is situated inside the body
Books and articles as examples
He had a small round belly with an outie bellybutton and wispy blond locks.
According to Brandon Mull, Fablehaven
“All right, then.” The BFG stated, “This cokey drink of yours is going straight down into your stomach when you are drinking it.” Is that correct? Or is it gone?
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Perhaps his stomach could only hold a teaspoon of food since he had consumed so much water?
Sonja’s book Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence As her father pushed his head on her stomach, Thomas Nunu twisted and giggled. |
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