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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tummy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ache
▪ They may also have nightmares, tummy aches or headaches.
▪ They tell me he's got toothache and tummy ache from eating too many sweets.
muscle
▪ Relax the tummy muscles, then repeat.
▪ Relax your tummy muscles by cuddling the knees and repeat the exercise.
▪ Relax your tummy muscles by holding your knees close to your chest and rock from side to side.
▪ Relax the tummy muscles by cuddling the knees and repeat the exercise once more.
▪ Pull in the tummy muscles and hold that position.
▪ Pull the tummy muscles in hard, while lightly holding on just below your knees.
▪ Relax the tummy muscles, then repeat, this time stretching up for 15 counts.
■ VERB
lie
▪ Stephanie advises letting her lie on your tummy when you're pregnant and listen to the life within.
▪ You could have him lie on his tummy and pretend to be a boat, rocking back and forth.
pull
▪ As they straighten, curve the spine and pull in the tummy, as if you have just received a blow.
▪ Did you remember to pull your tummy in and tuck your bottom under at all times yesterday?
▪ Ski down, pulling your tummy in and tucking your bottom under.
▪ Keep as busy as possible today and remember to hold yourself up, tucking your bottom under and pulling your tummy in.
▪ Relax and do not attempt to pull your tummy in hard.
▪ As you stand, pull in the tummy and pull up, out of the hips.
▪ Ski down, tucking your bottom under and pulling your tummy in.
▪ Exercise with grace and poise and always remember to pull your tummy in and tuck your bottom under.
raise
▪ With tummy pulled in, raise your head and shoulders, bringing your chin towards your chest.
▪ Pull the tummy in and raise the elbows, head and shoulders towards your knees.
▪ Lying on your tummy, raise your head and shoulders.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mommy, my tummy hurts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A baby placed on her tummy was discovered dead two hours later, facedown in a pool of milk.
▪ As they straighten, curve the spine and pull in the tummy, as if you have just received a blow.
▪ In the last act of King Lear, Regan complains of a spot of tummy trouble.
▪ My 11-year-old son is always complaining his tummy hurts.
▪ Once more her tummy contracted in memory.
▪ Relax the tummy muscles, then repeat.
▪ She was doodling in the sand and I was on my tummy watching her.
▪ Six out of 10 travellers get a tummy bug abroad.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tummy

1867, infantile for stomach. Tummy-ache is attested from 1874.

Wiktionary
tummy

n. 1 (''childish language'') stomach 2 (context US slang English) A protruding belly; a paunch.

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WordNet
tummy

  1. n. slang terms for a paunch [syn: pot, potbelly, bay window, corporation]

  2. an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion [syn: stomach, tum, breadbasket]

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Usage examples of "tummy".

When I was young I was told I would die if I ate the karaka berries, but I suppose Piccaninny tummies are different.

Some of his more witty mastectomy patients referred to the procedure as a boob job and a tummy tuck at the same time.

He lay down on his tummy, wagging his plumy tail with pleasure at all this loving fuss.

Tongues of flame were working their way up her body, filling her tummy with a blazing inferno, and tingling all the way down to her fingertips.

Jennie could imitate anything, and we expected her to pick up signs as fast as, for example, she had learned to wash the dishes, start the car when our backs were turned, light matches, unscrew light bulbs, and use scissors to cut all the hair off her tummy.

The orange color is all those tangerines inside the emperor, and the sparkling tail is his jeweled veil and earflaps, and if you listen very, very closely, you will hear the sound of an emperor with a tummy ache.

A sleeveless white knit top emphasized her big boobs, cantilevered over a thick waist and slightly rounded tummy.

Farahslax, son of Benelux and brother to Bromoseb, had lost four toes and suffered a gash across the tummy.

When Beatrice was a baby and had little colics, I used to jingle my keys in front of her nose, and it took her attention from the pain in her tummy.

For the wise Luna citizen today, overworked, overstimulated, overstressed, it is spelled C, 0, M, F, I, E, S-that's Comfies, the comfort therapists recommend most for acid stomach, heartburn, gastric ulcers, bowel spasm, and simple tummy ache.

For the wise Luna citizen today, overworked, overstimulated, overstressed, it is spelled C, 0, M, F, I, E, S-that’s Comfies, the comfort therapists recommend most for acid stomach, heartburn, gastric ulcers, bowel spasm, and simple tummy ache.

For the wise Luna citizen today, overworked, over-stimulated, overstressed, it is spelled C, 0, M, F, I, E, S—that's Comfies, the comfort therapists recommend most for acid stomach, heartburn, gastric ulcers, bowel spasm, and simple tummy ache.

And my poor Bar-ba-loots are all getting the crummies because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies!

Tummy tucks, nose jobs, boob jobs, butt jobs, fat suctions, face lifts, you name it.

When the talk-show idiot asked where he was now, Walt from Framingham said, "Somewhere in Danvers, Mike," pronouncing the town's name as Massachusetts people all did - Danvizz, making it sound not like a town but something you'd drink to settle an upset tummy.