tommy

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

tommies

1.
(UK, countable, slang, uncountable)A British infantryman, especially one from World War I. Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.
Đồng nghĩa: tommy boy
2.
(UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Bread or breadlike foodstuff, generally a penny roll.
3.
(UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)The supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
4.
(UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money; the scrip by which such exchange occurs.
5.
(countable, uncountable)A tommy bar.
6.
(abbreviation, alt of, countable, slang, uncountable)Short for Tommy gun
7.
(countable, dated, slang, uncountable)Tommyrot; nonsense.
8.
(countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Synonym of dicky (“detachable shirt front”).
Đồng nghĩa: dicky

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

tommies

V_ing/Gerund

tommying

V_ed/pp

tommied

1.
(UK, obsolete, slang, transitive)To pay (employees) according to the truck system, with goods instead of money.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

tommy boydicky

Cùng gốc / liên quan

soft tommytommy boytommy tintommy cookertommyknockertommy roughtommy loggetommy rufftommyrot,tommy-rot

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Nguồn gốc từ

Generally agreed to have come from appellativization of Tommy in most senses, but the historical details are apparently largely unknown, including whether such an evolution happened several times (with one sense being independent of another).