Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The heart.
  • noun A favorite dish in the West Indies, made by beating boiled plantains quite soft in a wooden mortar. It is eaten like a potato-pudding, or made into round cakes and fried.
  • noun Same as tom-tom.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain in a wooden mortar until it is soft.
  • noun childish, informal stomach
  • noun childish, informal abdomen

Etymologies

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Reduplication of tum, a shortened form of tummy.

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Examples

  • So I walk behind Sandra's desk and I put my radioactive tum-tum right up to her beaded dreadlocks and I tell her about the nuclear energy that is flowing through her right now.

    The Weak Force Benjamin Matvey 2011

  • Now, with laundry churning away in the back, and some garlic chicken pizza in the tum-tum, it's time for a slow evening.

    Ow, Part The Second akaspeedo 2007

  • June 29, 2008 at 8:34 am nawt reelly like tha skit, caus ai gots senisitiv tum-tum, but ai jus LUV teh rest of monty python!

    Dink frum toylit he sez. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Iss ok ambercat. wii just lay heer adn lukk at deh lubberlee babeh kitty-catkinz wif himz prittee bloo eyezez adn sweet liddle fais adn softee tum-tum….

    If I givz u mai heart willz u promiz not to brak it? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • While it might not be as loyal to you as the Anti-Theft Mug, the ring of trust bound between you and the mug signifies your everlasting devotion to the beverage that fills your tum-tum.

    Fingerprint Ring 2007

  • And now, the doughnuts and the spaghetti are starting to fight in my tum-tum.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2007

  • I feel like I've got a small Japanese man doing Kung Fu warmups in my tum-tum.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2004

  • Of course, this morning I feel like there's a small family of swarthy Russian immigrants setting up camp in my tum-tum.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2004

  • Today ... as I reported earlier in the broadcast ... my tum-tum hurts.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2000

  • In October 1879, during an intense fray fought by moonlight, a reliable officer claimed that during one lull, the only noise was the tum-tum beaten by Victorio himself all during the fight, accompanied by his high keyed, quavering voice in a song of “good medicine.”

    Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

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  • I used this word in a comment and intended it to be amusing, but decided it's really more of a stupidism.

    November 18, 2007