Tommy
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- proper noun
- /ˈtɑːmi/
- And at the end, like this is Tommy, our tour leader.
- Tommy said
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Watch on YouTubeI'm Shane, and today my guests are Tommy and Noah.
- I'm Shane, and today my guests are Tommy and Noah.
- You had a, a run in with Tommy's camp in that back hallway.
- And I said your nephew, Tommy Spiro, he created this monster.
- Hey, Theo, this is your fan and supporter Tommy Gill from Roanoke, VA.
- What's interesting is with Tommy, he's lost it all already.
- But one kid in my town, this kid, Tommy Gibson, was getting really good.
- He hides it, and then Father Tommy hides this and he hides that.
- I would say I don't think that Tommy Robinson is lying, all right.
Examples
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I'm Shane, and today my guests are Tommy and Noah.
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But one kid in my town, this kid, Tommy Gibson, was getting really good.
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If the world is against Tommy, I am against the world.
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And that for me, that is what makes Tommy such a beautiful human being.
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Thanksgiving afternoon, Tommy and I went for a long drive along the coast.
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I'm currently at the gym watching Tommy train tonight.
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Tommy came and met us in Tommy Smith's house.
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I'm setting up for an interview with Tommy Thayer from KISS.
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Hi, I'm Tommy Taffy, it's good to meet you.
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If the world is against Tommy, I am against the world.
Compounds
- Archaic
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8.2
A short, powerful automatic gun used by soldiers and criminals in the early 1900s
Surface Forms
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.