Tumtum

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(Judaism) One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Judaism) One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.
2. A toombah, a type of small drum used in the traditional music of Antigua and Barbuda.
3. Alternative form of tum-tum (“tummy, stomach; abdomen”).
4. Alternative form of tum-tum (“kind of vehicle”).

Example Sentences

Therefore, if a man died leaving a son and a tumtum or a hermaphrodyte, the son inherits everything, since the heirship of the tumtum or of the hermaphrodyte is doubtful.

As it happens, the baraita in question speaks of the tumtum twice, introducing an apparent redundancy into the text. To be specific, Abbaye's solution, proposing an unusual interpretation of the first tumtum ("his testicles are evident from the outside"), allows for a different reading of tumtum in each of his two usages.

A tumtum and a hermaphrodite should not dress like a woman, but neither should they cut the hair on their head like a man.

A. DEFINITION OF THE TERM The term tumtum, meaning ambiguous genitalia, is not found in Scripture.

"I much prefer [to drink] hard water, though it ruins the boilers in my house in an incredibly short space of time." Poor dear! I don't suppose she saw the irony of her own contradiction, for her “tumtum” must be stronger than her steam boilers, according to her own story.

[…] takes notice that the wrinkles in her tumtum are filling out so that she's beginning to lose some of that deflated or punctured look so common amongst [the hungry].

(A normal person with a machete in her tumtum, that is.)

The Civil Surgeon was the first to sustain their attack, as he drove under their trees in his tumtum. Probably a kite had stirred them up just before he passed, but bees are undiscerning creatures when revenge is being sought.

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