Tom vs James - What's the difference?
tom | james |
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.
(biblical) The twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the general epistle of James.
One of two Apostles, .
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popular since the Middle Ages. Also a common middle name.
* 1810 :
* 1979 , Dateline America, Harcourt Brace Jovanocich, ISBN 0151239576, page 184:
As a noun tom
is splash (onomatopoeia).As an adverb james is
.tom
English
Etymology 1
From generic use of the proper name Tom .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (male cat) tomcat, he-cat * (male turkey) turkey-cock * (male of other animals) male * (prostitute) See alsoDerived terms
* tomboy * tomcat * tomfool * tom-titEtymology 2
Shortened from tomatoEtymology 3
Rhyming slang from tomfoolery.Noun
(-)Etymology 4
From Uncle Tom.Verb
(tomm)Etymology 5
Verb
(tomm)Anagrams
* ----james
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun) (Epistle of James)- Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James' the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; ' James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
- And Normans call me James' Fitz-' James . / Thus watch I o'er insulted laws, / Thus learn to right the injured cause.
- Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy.