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.

名詞

Tommy (複数形 Tommies)

1. (colloquial) 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

   • 1929, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Chapter 15:

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

   • 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. (まれに, 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

• Tommy Atkins