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Stummy vs Scummy - What's the difference?

stummy | scummy |

As a noun stummy

is (colloquial|obsolete) stomach, tummy.

As an adjective scummy is

covered in scum.

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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    scummy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered in scum.
    • We have to wash your trousers: they're all scummy .
  • (slang) sleazy, worthless, no good
  • * 2006 , (Arctic Monkeys), When the Sun Goes Down (song)
    • And what a scummy man / just give him half a chance / I bet he'll rob you if he can.