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From Hebrew טומטום.

noun tumtums

  1. Judaism One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite, possibly intersex. 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.
  2. Judaism, broadly, rare A Jewish person who is also non-binary and/or intersex.

tumtum²

noun tumtums

  1. A toombah, a type of small drum used in the traditional music of Antigua and Barbuda.

tumtum³

noun tumtums

  1. alternative Alternative form of tum-tum (“tummy, stomach; abdomen”). "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.

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noun tumtums

  1. alternative Alternative form of tum-tum (“kind of vehicle”). 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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@misc{tumtum_2026,
  title = {tumtum},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tumtum},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}