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 theWest Indies by beatingboiled plantain in awooden mortar until it is soft. - noun childish, informal
stomach - noun childish, informal
abdomen
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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….
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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
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And now, the doughnuts and the spaghetti are starting to fight in my tum-tum.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2007
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I feel like I've got a small Japanese man doing Kung Fu warmups in my tum-tum.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2004
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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
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Today ... as I reported earlier in the broadcast ... my tum-tum hurts.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2000
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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
chained_bear commented on the word tum-tum
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