tommy

proper noun

1. A diminutive of the male given name Thomas. The Tory hard right is in the ascendancy, and a fascist street movement – led by convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson – represents a growing threat.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Thomasina.

noun Tommies

1. abbreviation, colloquial, ellipsis Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins, a typical private in the British army; a British soldier. 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
2. broadly, colloquial Any common soldier; a member of the rank and file. May was in New Zealand when war broke out, and immediately left for France, where she worked in a military hospital in a converted high school in Marseilles. Writing home, she said that the French officers were said to be 'fussy' so she was glad to be nursing the Tommies (meaning French rank and fil
3. obsolete, rare A lesbian. Here, here, here again! Coquettes, flirts, harlots, adultereſſes, tulips, pinks, roſes, lilies, violets, wormwood, fennel, and hemlock! Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural! Tommies, Tommies, Tommies! Women kiſſing women; doating, languiſhing, dying, pining, crying, caterwauling, for each other! Ha, ha,
4. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of tommy boy
5. penis Resolutely I refrained from thrusting or withdrawing for a minute or two and then drew out slowly to her lips and as I pushed Tommy gently in again, she leaned up and kissed me passionately.

Similar: Tommy Atkins

noun tommies

1. UK, countable, slang, uncountable A British infantryman, especially one from World War I. Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.

   Similar: 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. No. 84. April 6. * * * * * *, aged 13: Works at gimlets and centre-bits, &c.; works from six in the morning till seven at night; has worked here about two years; gets 4s. 6d. a week. Works for one of the men; every man pays his own boy; is paid in tommy; the man he works for gives him a note to the
5. countable, uncountable A tommy bar.
6. abbreviation, countable, slang, uncountable Short for Tommy gun
7. countable, dated, slang, uncountable Tommyrot; nonsense. '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. […]'
8. countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable Synonym of dicky (“detachable shirt front”).

   Similar: dicky

verb tommies · tommying · tommied

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