tum-tum

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Origin uncertain.

tum-tum (plural tum-tums)

1. (India) A dog cart.
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 49:

     His fellow assistant, Dr Panna Lal, was in ecstasies at the prospect, and was urgent that they should attend it together in his new tum-tum.

Origin uncertain.

tum-tum (uncountable)

1. A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain in a wooden mortar until it is soft.

Reduplication of tum, a shortened form of tummy.

tum-tum (plural tum-tums)

1. (childish, informal) stomach
   • 2000, Joy Masoff, Oh, Yuck!: The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty, Workman Publishing (2000), →ISBN, page 188:

     Take a little food and stir in some GASTRIC JUICE, which is made fresh daily by the 35 million glands that line your tum-tum.

2. (childish, informal) abdomen
   • 2011, Joanne Kimes (with Leslie Young), Pregnancy Sucks: What to Do When Your Miracle Makes You Miserable, Adams Media (2011), →ISBN, page 172:

     The Internet is full of sites where you can buy everything you need to make a plaster mold of your tum-tum.

• For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:tum-tum.

• See also Thesaurus:belly.

• mut. mut.