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tumpsy
 n.— «So it was dismaying to see her trading once more on her tumpsy instead of her brains and her bad, brilliant mouth.» —“Don’t fight gravity. Embrace gravitas” by Janice Turner Times (United Kingdom) Mar. 18, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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