Tommy
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒmi
[edit] Proper noun
Tommy
- A diminutive of the male given name Thomas.
[edit] Noun
Tommy (plural Tommies)
- Colloquial name for a British soldier during the world wars.
- 1929: And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies, with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpences. — D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1929, Chapter 15
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[edit] Danish
[edit] Etymology
From English Tommy.
[edit] Proper noun
Tommy
- A male given name.
[edit] Norwegian
[edit] Etymology
From English Tommy. First recorded as a given name in Norway around 1870.
[edit] Proper noun
Tommy
- A male given name.
[edit] References
- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
- [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 9 285 males with the given name Tommy living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
[edit] Swedish
[edit] Etymology
From English Tommy. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1886.
[edit] Proper noun
Tommy
- A male given name.
[edit] References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
- [2] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 42 964 males with the given name Tommy living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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- English proper nouns
- English diminutives of male given names
- English nouns
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish male given names
- Norwegian terms derived from English
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian male given names
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish male given names