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Tommy

Tommy

∞ 4.0
A male name used as a short form of Thomas
  • proper noun
  • /ˈtɑːmi/
: Tomás
  • And at the end, like this is Tommy, our tour leader.
  • Tommy said

I'm Shane, and today my guests are Tommy and Noah.

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Examples

  • I'm Shane, and today my guests are Tommy and Noah.

  • But one kid in my town, this kid, Tommy Gibson, was getting really good.

  • If the world is against Tommy, I am against the world.

  • And that for me, that is what makes Tommy such a beautiful human being.

  • Thanksgiving afternoon, Tommy and I went for a long drive along the coast.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I'm currently at the gym watching Tommy train tonight.

  • Tommy came and met us in Tommy Smith's house.

  • I'm setting up for an interview with Tommy Thayer from KISS.

  • Hi, I'm Tommy Taffy, it's good to meet you.

  • If the world is against Tommy, I am against the world.

Compounds

Tommy gun
  • Archaic
5 8.2

A short, powerful automatic gun used by soldiers and criminals in the early 1900s

Surface Forms

Tommy main

Morphology

Tommy = Tom (semi-transparent) = Tom + y

The name is built with the familiar diminutive suffix -y, but the connection to the full name Thomas is conventional rather than fully compositional.

Etymology

Tommy is a friendly short form of Thomas, a name that comes from an old Aramaic word meaning 'twin'. You can also see the same name as Tom, and that's why Tommy is used as a casual, friendly name for someone called Thomas.