Terms vs Stummy - What's the difference?
terms | stummy |
(colloquial, obsolete) stomach, tummy
* 1859 Jacques Maurice and James Willard Morris:
* 1879 Graeme Mercer Adam and George Stewart, eds:
* 1896
As nouns the difference between terms and stummy
is that terms is while stummy is (colloquial|obsolete) stomach, tummy.stummy
English
Noun
(stummies)K.N. Pepper, and other condiments, p.233:
- "Poor Stummy [which playful Term means Stomach], he gits Sick."
The Canadian Monthlyvol.2 p527:
- 'I like my little stummy ,' he had once frankly observed, on being rallied on his devotion to the delicacies of the table.
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 ...
