Tommy

Quick meaning: Tommy is a noun meaning (UK, slang) A British infantryman, especially one from World War I. Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.

Meaning

(UK, slang) A British infantryman, especially one from World War I. Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.

More Meanings

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Bread or breadlike foodstuff, generally a penny roll.
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) The supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money; the scrip by which such exchange occurs.
4. A tommy bar.
5. (slang) Short for Tommy gun
6. (slang, dated) Tommyrot; nonsense.
7. (slang, obsolete) Synonym of dicky (“detachable shirt front”).

Example Sentences

'Don't talk tommy, Guy!' she exclaimed half wrathfully. 'As if I could possibly put on two left shoes without knowing it, even if I could get them on. […]'

Word Forms

• tommies
• tommying
• tommied

Synonyms for tommy

Depending on context, synonyms include dicky.

Related Words

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