Tom vs Drake - What's the difference?
tom | drake |
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.
A mayfly used as fishing bait.
A dragon.
* J. A. Harrison
(historical) A small piece of artillery.
* Clarendon
As nouns the difference between tom and drake
is that tom is the male of the domesticated cat while drake is a male duck.As proper nouns the difference between tom and drake
is that tom is a diminutive=Thomas given name, also used as a formal male given name while Drake is {{surname|from=nicknames}}, notably of Francis Drake (1540-1596).As a verb tom
is to act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.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
* ----drake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Derived terms
* ducks and drakes * sheldrakeEtymology 2
From (etyl) and (etyl) Drache.Noun
(en noun)- Beowulf resolves to kill the drake .
- Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes , made them stagger.
