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tom  (tm)
n.
The male of various animals, especially a male cat or turkey.
[Tom, nickname for Thomas.]
tom
Noun
a male cat
Adjective
(of an animal) male: a tom turkey [from Thomas]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.tomTom - (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
Uncle Tom
derogation, disparagement, depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something
ethnic slur - a slur on someone's race or language
Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid, Black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
2.tomtom - male cat
tomcat
domestic cat, Felis catus, Felis domesticus, house cat - any domesticated member of the genus Felis
gib - a castrated tomcat
3.tomtom - male turkey
tom turkey, turkey cock, gobbler
Meleagris gallopavo, turkey - large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
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If any bagman of that day could have caught sight of the little neck-or-nothing sort of gig, with a clay- coloured body and red wheels, and the vixenish, ill tempered, fast-going bay mare, that looked like a cross between a butcher's horse and a twopenny post-office pony, he would have known at once, that this traveller could have been no other than Tom Smart, of the great house of Bilson and Slum, Cateaton Street, City.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
The baby Tom would claw anybody who came within reach of his nails, and pound anybody he could reach with his rattle.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
Tom was by way of being the strong, silent man with a career to think of and no time for bothering about girls, but he saw that.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
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