Stummy
Origin
Shortening of stomach.
Full definition of stummy
Noun
stummy
(plural stummies)- (colloquial, obsolete) stomach, tummy
- 1859 Jacques Maurice and James Willard Morris: K.N. Pepper, and other condiments, p.233:"Poor Stummy playful Term means Stomach, he gits Sick."
- 1879 Graeme Mercer Adam and George Stewart, eds: The Canadian Monthly vol.2 p527:'I like my little stummy,' he had once frankly observed, on being rallied on his devotion to the delicacies of the table.
- 1896 Exposures of Quackery: Being a Series of Articles Upon, and Analyses Of, Various Patent Medicines, Volumes 1-2 p.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 ...