英语词汇“white tommy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. British slang. Bread; a loaf of bread. Earliest in the language of sailors: bread as distinguished from ship's biscuit (chiefly with distinguishing word, as soft tommy, white tommy). Later (Military slang): coarse brown bread supplied to soldiers as rations; a loaf or roll of this (cf. Brown Tommy n. at brown adj. Compounds 2). Now only in general use (chiefly British regional): a loaf or roll of bread.

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1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Tommy, Soft Tommy; bread is so called by sailors, to distinguish it from biscuit.

1795 G. Brewer Motto II. i. 39 Nice harbour, plenty of fresh beef and soft tommy.

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) Soft Tommy, or white Tommy; bread is so called by sailors, to distinguish it from biscuit.

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum (at cited word) Brown Tommy; ammunition bread for soldiers; or brown bread given to convicts at the hulks.

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Tommy, a little loaf. ‘A soldier's tommy’.

1830 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 22 May 664 When I was a recruit at Chatham barracks, in the year 1783, we had brown bread served out to us twice in the week. And, for what reason God knows, we used to call it tommy... Any one that could get white bread, called it bread; but the brown stuff..was called tommy.

1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer (ed. 2) I. xiii. 162 The eighth portion of soft tommy and butter, with a bottle of porter, I made the servant leave on the table.

1846 J. M. MacMullen Camp & Barrack-room ii. 16 After I had breakfasted upon tommy and insipid coffee.

c1878 W. S. Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore i. 4 I've treacle and toffy and excellent coffee, Soft tommy and succulent chops.

1890 Anent Old Edinb. 83 The pay [for militia service in the early 19th cent.] was 6d. a day and a coarse roll called a ‘tammie’.

1890 J. Brown Literæ Laureatæ 51 But somehow, boys they get a knack, And give the tommies such a bite.

1976 G. E. Campion Lincs. Dial. 52 Tommy, a loaf of bread. ‘We had better git another Tommy in caäse any company comes.’

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 315/2 Tommy, a loaf of bread; bakehouse made; i.e. bought, as opposed to home-made.

单词	white tommy
释义	> as lemmas white tommy a. British slang. Bread; a loaf of bread. Earliest in the language of sailors: bread as distinguished from ship's biscuit (chiefly with distinguishing word, as soft tommy, white tommy). Later (Military slang): coarse brown bread supplied to soldiers as rations; a loaf or roll of this (cf. Brown Tommy n. at brown adj. Compounds 2). Now only in general use (chiefly British regional): a loaf or roll of bread. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > brown bread brown bread1490 Tommy1788 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Tommy, Soft Tommy; bread is so called by sailors, to distinguish it from biscuit. 1795 G. Brewer Motto II. i. 39 Nice harbour, plenty of fresh beef and soft tommy. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) Soft Tommy, or white Tommy; bread is so called by sailors, to distinguish it from biscuit. 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum (at cited word) Brown Tommy; ammunition bread for soldiers; or brown bread given to convicts at the hulks. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Tommy, a little loaf. ‘A soldier's tommy’. 1830 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 22 May 664 When I was a recruit at Chatham barracks, in the year 1783, we had brown bread served out to us twice in the week. And, for what reason God knows, we used to call it tommy... Any one that could get white bread, called it bread; but the brown stuff..was called tommy. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer (ed. 2) I. xiii. 162 The eighth portion of soft tommy and butter, with a bottle of porter, I made the servant leave on the table. 1846 J. M. MacMullen Camp & Barrack-room ii. 16 After I had breakfasted upon tommy and insipid coffee. c1878 W. S. Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore i. 4 I've treacle and toffy and excellent coffee, Soft tommy and succulent chops. 1890 Anent Old Edinb. 83 The pay [for militia service in the early 19th cent.] was 6d. a day and a coarse roll called a ‘tammie’. 1890 J. Brown Literæ Laureatæ 51 But somehow, boys they get a knack, And give the tommies such a bite. 1976 G. E. Campion Lincs. Dial. 52 Tommy, a loaf of bread. ‘We had better git another Tommy in caäse any company comes.’ 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 315/2 Tommy, a loaf of bread; bakehouse made; i.e. bought, as opposed to home-made. extracted from Tommyn.¹ < as lemmas
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