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TOMMY

Traducere în limba română

Tommy substantiv

1. porecla soldatului englez.

2. (sl.) soldat simplu / prost, soldat fără grad.

3. tommy pâine; alimente date în loc de plată muncitorilor.

4. tommy (tehn.) cheie; şurubelniţă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The cook, who was called “the doctor” by the crew, “Tommy” by the hunters, and “Cooky” by Wolf Larsen, was a changed person.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Then he aimed a great blow, and struck the wolf on the head, and killed him on the spot! and when he was dead they cut open his body, and set Tommy free.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

You gave him a cool nod, and just now you bowed and smiled in the politest way to Tommy Chamberlain, whose father keeps a grocery store.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

My mind flew back to Salem House; and could it be Tommy, I thought, who used to draw the skeletons!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

‘I didn’t mean it Tommy,’ ’e was snifflin’; ‘so ’elp me Gawd, I didn’t mean it!’ ‘I’ll fix yer bloody well right,’ I sez, an’ kept right after ’im.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Tommy is poor and bashful and good and very clever.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

There was another boy, one Tommy Traddles, who I dreaded would make game of it, and pretend to be dreadfully frightened of me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Somehow Tommy’s grub always tastes of grease, stale grease, and I reckon he ain’t changed his shirt since he left ’Frisco.”

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

We never shall be rich, and Plumfield may burn up any night, for that incorrigible Tommy Bangs will smoke sweet-fern cigars under the bed-clothes, though he's set himself afire three times already.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It was no other than Tommy Traddles who gave me this piece of intelligence.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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