tommy

See also: Tommy

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑmi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒmi/

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• Rhymes: -ɒmi
• Hyphenation: tom‧my

Noun

tommy (countable and uncountable, plural tommies)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Bread, 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.
4. A tommy bar.

Usage notes

• Often used adjectivally or in compounds: tommy master, tommy-store, tommy-shop, etc.

Derived terms

• soft tommy

Verb

tommy (third-person singular simple present tommies, present participle tommying, simple past and past participle tommied)

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

Related terms

• tommy cooker
• tommy logge
• tommy-rot
• tommy ruff

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tommy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)