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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: slang for a paunch [syn: pot, potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy]
2: an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion [syn: stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural tummies) Etymology: baby-talk alteration of stomach Date: 1867 stomach 1c

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) colloq. the stomach. Phrases and idioms: tummy-button the navel. Etymology: childish pronunc. of STOMACH

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tummies) 1. Your tummy is the part of the front of your body below your waist. Tummy is often used by children or by adults talking to children. Your baby's tummy should feel warm, but not hot. = stomach N-COUNT 2. You can use tummy to refer to the parts inside your body where food is digested. Tummy is often used by children or by adults talking to children. It's easy to get a tummy upset from river water. = stomach N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

abdomen, abomasum, bay window, beerbelly, belly, breadbasket, craw, crop, diaphragm, embonpoint, first stomach, gizzard, gullet, gut, honeycomb stomach, kishkes, manyplies, maw, midriff, omasum, paunch, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, tum-tum, underbelly, venter, ventripotence