Last Updated ：2025/11/20

Tommy

IPA(Pronunciation)

Noun

abbreviation alt-of colloquial ellipsis broadly historical rare

(colloquial) Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.; a typical private in the British army; a British soldier. / (by extension) Any common soldier; a member of the rank and file. / (rare, now historical) A lesbian.

Japanese Meaning

（口語）イギリス陸軍における典型的な下級兵、一般兵、隊列兵 / （拡張）一般の兵士、隊列兵 / （稀かつ歴史的な用法）レズビアン

What is this buttons?

Tommy stood at the barricade, waiting for the order.

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イギリス兵はバリケードに立ち、命令を待っていた。

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Sense（1）

(colloquial) Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.; a typical private in the British army; a British soldier.

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

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Sense（2）

(by extension) Any common soldier; a member of the rank and file.

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 and 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.'

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Sense（3）

(rare, now historical) A lesbian.

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!

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