Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A British soldier.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To enforce the tommy or truck system on; oppress or defraud by the tommy system.
- noun [capitalized] Short for Tommy Atkins,' a nickname for the British private soldier.
- noun Originally, a penny roll; hence, bread; provisions; especially, goods given to a workman in lieu of wages.
- noun A tommy-shop.
- noun The system of paying workmen in goods in place of money; the truck system.
- noun A simple fellow.
- noun A tom-cat.
- noun A small round lever used to tighten round-headed screw-bolts that are perforated for this purpose.
- noun The puffin or sea-parrot, Fratercula arctica. See cut under
puffin . - noun Hence— A species of soft solder used in the jewelers' trade.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang,Eng. Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
- noun Slang, Eng. A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money.
- noun colloq. Same as
Tommy Atkins ; -- a shortened form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, slang, obsolete
bread , generally apenny roll ; the supply of food carried byworkmen as theirdaily allowance - noun UK, slang, obsolete A
truck , orbarter ; theexchange of labour forgoods instead ofmoney .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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First thing that comes to mind Who or what comes to mind when i say "tommy"? the only thing i can think of when i hear the word tommy is the song by brand new called
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i notice jackass tommy is here. tommy, do you support american flag boxers and briefs?
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I also believe the boarding house was necessary for 3 reasons: 1) it gives him a chance to get to know us a bit as a race 2) tommy is the conduit how else would he have learned about the scientist and gotten to him without tommys help ..
KAMN Show #24: The Day The Earth Stood Still : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2006
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The idea of it being frozen up, and icebergs, and all that kind of tommy-rot is simply the same kind of propaganda that was used against the building of the C.P.R. in western Canada.
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I am sorry, but A.B. & Co, haven't any shekels for that kind of tommy-rot.
Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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A French Dragoon Captain insisted there was cream in the soup, and a German Lancer protested that cooking was never simple because he had never managed to cook anything other than a boiled egg and even then it came out hard as a Cuirasseur's breastplate, and a Fusilier Captain insisted he had seen men boil eggs by whirling them round and round in a cloth sling, taking forever, and Harold Price insisted on giving the recipe for a 'tommy', the British Army pancake, which consisted of nothing but flour and water, but still took Price two minutes to describe.
Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984
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"tommy" (one of the kittens) or spiderman and they get a giggle.
Sleeping Mommy 2008
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Cleopanther: "As I understand it, the rules of free trade say that the companies with the best inventory relevant to ..." tommy: "TAC, you're probably right.
GMSV 2008
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If sonic wanted the extra hour all they had to do was contribute to tommy boy's campaign.
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Anonymous said ... yeah, cuz kmitch isn't just writing what tommy boy asks.
minerva commented on the word tommy
Song by The Who.
February 9, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word tommy
"Tommy's Gone to Hilo" is an old sea shanty.
February 10, 2008