Joe vs Tom - What's the difference?
joe | tom |
A common nickname for Joseph, also used as a formal male given name.
* 1981 , Second Movement , Nebula Winners: Science Fiction Writers of America, Harper&Row, 1981, ISBN 0060148306, page 207
, Joanne or Josephine.
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 proper nouns the difference between joe and tom
is that joe is a common nickname for Joseph, also used as a formal male given name while Tom is a diminutive=Thomas given name, also used as a formal male given name.As nouns the difference between joe and tom
is that joe is a male; a guy; a fellow while tom is the male of the domesticated cat.As a verb tom is
to act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.joe
English
(wikipedia Joe)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "With a name like Joe'," '''Joe''' always said, "I had to open a bar and grill, just so I could put up a sign saying '' Joe' s Bar and Grill'."