• Stummy

    Origin

    Shortening of stomach.

    Full definition of stummy

    Noun

    stummy

    (plural stummies)
    1. (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 ...

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