Dictionary Entry

tum

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/tʌm/Used In Literature ↓

(often childish) Stomach or belly.

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Common Phrases

. tumquia tumright tum

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Poetry examples for “tum”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

tiddy um,
tiddy um tum tum.
My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their

Linguae, styli, ac vitae elegantiam,
Praeclara officia cum Britanniae tum Europae praestita,
Sua aetate multum celebratus,

Shoals of low-jargoning men drift inward to the sound,--
The jangle and throb of a piano ... tum-ti-tum ...
Drawn by a lamp, they come

pathetic sentence of Pliny, _Hist. Nat._ ii. 63: "Nam terra novissime
complexa gremio jam a reliqua natura abnegatos, tum maxime, ut mater,
operit."

Tum-ti-tum,