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Strummy vs Stummy - What's the difference?

strummy | stummy |

As an adjective strummy

is achieved by strumming.

As a noun stummy is

stomach, tummy.

strummy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (music, informal) Achieved by strumming
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 12, author=Ben Ratliff, title=Acoustic Set of Country, Rock and Old-Time Tales, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In “The Delivery Man,” halfway through, he played electric guitar sparely, which made a huge difference in a very strummy show. }}

    stummy

    English

    Noun

    (stummies)
  • (colloquial, obsolete) stomach, tummy
  • * 1859 Jacques Maurice and James Willard Morris: K.N. Pepper, and other condiments , p.233:
    • "Poor Stummy [which playful Term means Stomach], he gits Sick."
  • * 1879 Graeme Mercer Adam and George Stewart, eds: The Canadian Monthly vol.2 p527:
    • 'I like my little stummy ,' he had once frankly observed, on being rallied on his devotion to the delicacies of the table.
  • * 1896 Exposures of Quackery: Being a Series of Articles Upon, and Analyses Of, Various Patent Medicines, Volumes 1-2 p.136:
    • One little Cowes boy,/ His “stummy ” felt so bad;/ Fennings gave him but one dose,/ And that settled the —/ Confound it! Our pen has suddenly become prosaic again; neither “ stomach-ache” nor “ bowel complaint ” will rhyme to “bad,” and we ...

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