English Online Dictionary. What means tommy? What does tommy mean?
English
Etymology
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).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɑmi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɒmi/
- Rhymes: -ɒmi
- Hyphenation: tom‧my
Noun
tommy (countable and uncountable, plural tommies)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) Bread or breadlike foodstuff, generally a penny roll.
- Hypernyms: tack < foodstuff, food
- Hyponym: soft tommy
- Coordinate term: biscuit
- (UK, slang, obsolete) The supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money; the scrip by which such exchange occurs.
- A tommy bar.
- (slang) Short for Tommy gun.
Usage notes
- Often used adjectivally or in compounds: tommy master, tommy-store, tommy-shop, etc.
Derived terms
- soft tommy
Related terms
Verb
tommy (third-person singular simple present tommies, present participle tommying, simple past and past participle tommied)
- (UK, slang, obsolete, transitive) To pay (employees) according to the truck system, with goods instead of money.