Tommy vs Tom - What's the difference?
tommy | tom |
(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:
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.
Tom is a related term of tommy.
As proper nouns the difference between tommy and tom
is that tommy is a diminutive=Thomas given name while Tom is a diminutive=Thomas given name, also used as a formal male given name.As nouns the difference between tommy and tom
is that tommy is tommy Atkins; a typical private in the British army; a British soldier while tom is the male of the domesticated cat.As a verb tom is
to act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.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.