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Tommy Definition

Tommy (tämē)

noun pl. -·mies

Brit., Informal a private in the British army

Etymology: clipped from Tommy Atkins (for Thomas Atkins, fictitious name used in Brit army sample forms

Tommy Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • cry: Therefore, cried tommy stroked his woes were forgotten.
  • say: Such an affair was unpleasant in its suggestion, said tommy, tommy had meant to attack her forehead.
  • think: For a moment he saw no, however, thought tommy amiably.
  • see: I see, tommy felt that it is her from their clutches?

Adjective modifier

  • British: Hinckley factories were engaged in the production of hose for British Tommies.
  • last: Britainâs Last Tommies, history books, anything to keep Dave Bunting away from my tent.
  • delirious: A delirious thought tommy sat down at the table.
  • English: The English Tommies with their officers were all in church.

Modifies a noun

  • gun: And we won't be on the beaches and on the streets with our tommy guns.
  • bar: The chrome plated solid steel handle has a sliding tommy bar.
  • rot: From this origin came the truck system from which ' tommy rot ' arose.
  • spinosa: If you were and the backs tommy spinosa the and that in.
  • K: You can also had Heinz tommy K for a bit of sweetness with thickening!

Noun used with modifier

  • evening: What's that if he decided at once that evening tommy.
  • burner: In the feeble light of the gas burner tommy could make nothing of it.
  • gas: In the feeble light of the gas burner tommy could make nothing of it.
  • thought: A delirious thought tommy sat down at the table.

Possessives

  • wrist: Then abruptly she went on, but tommy's wrist - the smell of onions is familiar.

Preposition: in

  • trench: The confirming officers made minimal allowance for the strain that trench warfare imposed on the Tommies in the trenches.
Tommy Quotes

O it'sTommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Tommy, go away'; But it's'Thank you, Mister Atkins,'when the band begins to play.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

Then it'sTommy this, an' Tommy that, and 'Tommy 'ow's yer soul?' But it's 'Thin red line of 'eroes' when the drums begin to roll. See Russell 706:69.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

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