Tommy vs Luca - What's the difference?
tommy | luca |
(colloquial) Tommy Atkins; a typical private in the British army; a British soldier.
* 1892 , , "Tommy"
* 1929 , , :
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, page 129:
As a noun tommy
is (uk|slang|obsolete) bread, generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.As an acronym luca is
(taxonomy|biology|paleontology) last universal common ancestor; the hypothesised most recent primordial organism that is an ancestor to all organisms now living.tommy
English
Noun
(Tommies)- Then it's Tommy' this, an' '''Tommy''' that, an' "' Tommy , 'ow's yer soul?"
- But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll
- And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies , with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpences.
- He liked the Germans better than he did the French; but for all that, if he went down the back streets of a night, it was with three or four British Tommies , in case the Jerries weren't as friendly as they made out.
