tum

American  

[tuhm] / tʌm /

verb (used with object)

tummed, tumming

1. to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.

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tum British  

/ tʌm /

noun

1. an informal or childish word for stomach

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Etymology

Origin of tum

First recorded in 1605–15; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

tum tumming

And he was also open to including his Bollywood hit like "Aoge jab tum o saajna" in a classical performance.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024

At my apartment door, I fumble for the key, insert it in the lock, open the door, tum on the hall light, and step inside.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

Her eyes well up and she clutches her tum.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2018

I order tum siew, a mixed papaya salad, with pad mee korat, a stir-fried rice noodle dish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2016

I supposed that Papa was saving it for something because I never saw anything new tum up around our home, but, like any young boy, I wasn’t bothered by it and I asked no questions.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

Again and again he sang to the tumming of a small tom-tom, till the great refulgent one had cleared the cloud, and the red miracle of the sunrise was complete.

From Rolf in the Woods by Seton, Ernest Thompson

Nan got up instantly, held out one hand to Mrs. Willis and the other to Annie, and said, in her confident baby tones: 184 “Me tum; Annie tumming too.”

From A World of Girls The Story of a School by Meade, L. T.

Zounds, sir, there's an infernal banjo tum, tum, tumming in my ears every morning and I can't sleep.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise

Two banjos were tumming somewhere below, and the passengers hummed and sang to their tunes.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

He tottered off and, as I observed, after that so long as I stayed left the door of his room open down the hall so that he could hear my "tum, tum, tumming."

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise