Tommyとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑmi/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒmi/
• 韻: -ɒmi

固有名詞

Tommy

1. A diminutive of the male given name Thomas.
2. (uncommon relative to the male given name) A diminutive of the female given name Thomasina.

派生語

名詞

Tommy (複数形 Tommies)

1. (colloquial) Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.; a typical private in the British army; a British soldier.
   • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, "Tommy"

     Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"

     But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll

   • 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, authorized British edition, London: Martin Secker […], published February 1932 (May 1932 printing), OCLC 560928522:

     And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies, with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpences.

   • 1949, Stephen Peter Llewellyn, Journey Towards Christmas (page 142)

     Meanwhile the Tommies had discovered several large tins of ham in the captured lorry. 'That,' said the big Nazi, 'is for our tea.' 'No,' said a Tommy sergeant-major. 'That's for our tea. For you, chummy, we've kept a nice bit of bull.'

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, page 129:

     He liked the Germans better than he did the French; but for all that, if he went down the back streets of a night, it was with three or four British Tommies, in case the Jerries weren't as friendly as they made out.

2. (by extension) Any common soldier; a member of the rank and file.
   • 2017, Janet Tolerton, Make Her Praises Heard Afar: New Zealand Women Overseas in World War One, →ISBN, page 38:

     May was in New Zealand when war broke out, and immediately left for France, where she worked in a military hospital in a converted high school in Marseilles. Writing home, she said that the French officers were said to be 'fussy' so she was glad to be nursing the Tommies (meaning French rank かつ file): 'they are brave and good, and patient, and such grateful patients. They are helpful to each other, and take such an interest in their fellow sufferers.'

3. (rare, now historical) A lesbian.
   • 1777, [Anon.], “Number XVII. A faſhionable, diſgraceful Paſſion expoſed.”, in The Laughing Philosopher, Dublin: Printed for James Williams, OCLC 13288283, page 91:

     Here, here, here again! Coquettes, flirts, harlots, adultereſſes, tulips, pinks, roſes, lilies, violets, wormwood, fennel, and hemlock! Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural! Tommies, Tommies, Tommies!Women kiſſing women; doating, languiſhing, dying, pining, crying, caterwauling, for each other! Ha, ha, ha! O the madneſs of this age!

同意語

• (英国用法 soldier): Tommy Atkins