tommy

FREQ #1416

n. 配给面包, 实物工资制 [经] 实物工资制

发音

US /ˈtɑmi/
AU
UK /ˈtɒmi/

词形变化

tommies 复数 tommied tommies 三单 tommies tommying tommying 现在分词 tommied 过去式 tommied 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A British infantryman, especially one from World War I. Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.

    英国 可数 俚语 不可数
  2. 2.

    Bread or breadlike foodstuff, generally a penny roll.

    英国 可数 废旧 俚语 不可数
  3. 3.

    The supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.

    英国 可数 废旧 俚语 不可数
  4. 4.

    A truck, or barter; the exchange of labour for goods instead of money; the scrip by which such exchange occurs.

    英国 可数 废旧 俚语 不可数
  5. 5.

    A tommy bar.

    可数 不可数
  6. 6.

    Short for Tommy gun

    可数 俚语 不可数
  7. 7.

    Tommyrot; nonsense.

    可数 过时 俚语 不可数

    1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries '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. […] '

v.
  1. 1.

    To pay (employees) according to the truck system, with goods instead of money.

    英国 废旧 俚语 及物

相关短语

Tommy gun tommy cooker tommy logge tommy logges Tommy Atkins [单数复数同]；[口语]英国兵 tommy bar [机] 贯头螺旋手把, 簪形扳手 Tommy guns Tommy John surgery Tommy John surgeries tommy ruff tommy bars tommy cookers tommy ruffs Tommy K tommy gun n. 手提轻机枪

词源

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).

来源：wiktionary