Found on the Internet (and slightly edited):
For a time the word “belly” was considered vulgar. The word was sometimes slyly hinted at.
For example, in the 1933 film “42nd Street,” there is a lyric “with a shotgun in his b…tummy”
(tummy is a childish word for belly). Nowadays this supposed vulgarity of “belly” is completely
forgotten, and the joke has to be explained.
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