tumtum

[< Chinook Jargon, in allusion to a beating heart]

West Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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heart; affection; mind; opinion.

Quotations

1868

But he has aye the grit, / Tho' his "tum-tum" may be sair, / For anither year is coming.

1872

. . . she had shown a good tumtum (heart) in assisting the needy.

1874

His Lordship stepped forward . . . saying he knew by what he had heard the tom-tom of the whole tribe.

1915

Peter soon realized that his wife was eating at his table and living in another man's tum-tum. . . .

1963

"Me hyu sick tum-tum. My papoose going mamaloosh I t'ink."