Ben vs Tom - What's the difference?
ben | tom |
(Scotland, northern England) In, into.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 32:
Inner, interior.
(Scotland, Northern England) Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
The winged seed of the ben tree.
The oil of the ben seed.
(usually, capitalised) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
The male of the domesticated cat.
The male of the turkey.
The male of certain other animals.
(British, slang) A prostitute.
(music) A type of drum.
(obsolete) The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.
(Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery
(intransitive, derogatory, of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.
(nautical) To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability.
As an adverb ben
is well.As a noun tom is
splash (onomatopoeia).ben
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ben, bene, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) ben, bene, variation of bin, .Preposition
(English prepositions)- And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.