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tum-tum
noun 4
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3ADJ.
new
VERB + TUM-TUM
having, likes, line
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A dog cart; a rickshaw; a kind of vehicle.
An optimistic old man was our driver; he needed all his optimism too, for his tum-tum was one of the most rickety I've seen , and his little pony very tiny. The balance of this vehicle was most important; we had to sit in certain definite positions ...
His fellow assistant, Dr Panna Lal, was in ecstasies at the prospect, and was urgent that they should attend it together in his new tum-tum.
noun
1
A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain in a wooden mortar until it is soft.
noun
1
Stomach.
Can't eat - my tum-tum's hurting.
Take a little food and stir in some GASTRIC JUICE, which is made fresh daily by the 35 million glands that line your tum-tum.
2
Abdomen.
The dog likes having its tum-tum rubbed.
The Internet is full of sites where you can buy everything you need to make a plaster mold of your tum-tum.
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An optimistic old man was our driver; he needed all his optimism too, for his tum-tum was one of the most rickety I've seen , and his little pony very tiny. The balance of this vehicle was most import
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His fellow assistant, Dr Panna Lal, was in ecstasies at the prospect, and was urgent that they should attend it together in his new tum-tum.
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Can't eat - my tum-tum's hurting.
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Take a little food and stir in some GASTRIC JUICE, which is made fresh daily by the 35 million glands that line your tum-tum.
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The dog likes having its tum-tum rubbed.
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