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- noun In Jewish vernacular terminology, a person whose
gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking externalgenitalia ; anandrogynous person, sometimes also used in reference to ahermaphrodite .
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Examples
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In addition to male and female, they claimed, there are two sexes that are neither male nor female, called the tumtum (person whose genitals are obscured, making their gender uncertain) and the androgynos (person who has aspects of both male and female genitalia).
Leora Tanenbaum: Transgender Professor at Yeshiva U. -- Mazel Tov! 2008
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'Shaman sick tumtum,' he said, meaning the shaman, or medicine man, was jealous, and had advised the people to have nothing to do with us.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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And first, Esanetuk, who be sick tumtum, fought with Kluktu, and there was much noise.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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As to the supposed Hillary supporters turned to McCain ... get serious no one who respects Hillary or her views would support this blowhard washingtonian, non-supporting the troops, lobbyist monney grubbing scumbag tumtum
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The semiotics of body surfaces produces other different and seemingly more ambiguous gender possibilities, the androgynos or person with both primary sexual organs, and the tumtum as one with neither, at least not recognizably (the Semitic root connotes “closedness”).
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PLEH wurkity, PLEH tumtum, PLEH supposed frenz acting awl upity.
LAZY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Wayt, if yoo direct me, I kan slyd over to the ryt spot whyl yoo ar sittin on mai tumtum.
Look at me while iz talkin to u! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Hahaha I lurves when kittehz do dis! teh aiz an teh liddol front footzez and teh snorgly tumtum. mai luna duz dis when he seez me wit a boll of numnums.
you walks like this all the time ? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Although I love them, they are just too acidic for my delicate tumtum.
Chickpea (Garbanzo Bean) Soup Recipe with Spinach, Tomatoes, and Basil Kalyn Denny 2008
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Habyew tryed teh Jinjer Ale noooo, nawt poysin sumtymz heps tumtum be teh reelaxed.
Mom gator takes - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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