Meaning

7 senses
  1. (UK, countable, slang, uncountable)A British infantryman, especially one from World War I. Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.

  2. (countable, uncountable)A tommy bar.

  3. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable)Tommyrot; nonsense.

  4. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Bread or breadlike foodstuff, generally a penny roll.

  5. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)The supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.

  6. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money; the scrip by which such exchange occurs.

  7. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Synonym of dicky (“detachable shirt front”).

Examples

20 sentences
  1. Tommy, can you hear me?

    Томмі, ти мене чуєш? — brambury

    ruТомми, ты меня слышишь? — shanghainese

    deTommy, kannst du mich hören? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tommy couldn't answer the last question.

    ruТомми не смог ответить на последний вопрос. — marafon

    deTommy konnte die letzte Frage nicht beantworten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tommy was asleep inside his playpen.

  4. Tommy left some spittle on the table.

  5. Tommy never said that he wanted to leave.

Origin

Generally agreed to have come from appellativization of Tommy in most senses, but the hist

Generally agreed to have come from appellativization of Tommy in most senses, but the historical details are apparently largely unknown, including whether such an evolution happened several times (with one sense being independent of another).

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