Slang: Tommy boy?

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 7 07:39:26 PST 2001


Sure, there's a Kipling poem about the way people at home treat soldiers: "It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy wait in line." --jks


>I believe you're right that "Tommy" (but no boy) is a British Infantryman.
>Now, it would have been something entirely else if
>her student had referred to himself as "Rent Boy."
>
>Peter Kosenko
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Rob Schaap <rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 06:02:30 +1100
>
> >><forwarded query from another list>
> >>
> >>I've got a student using the nickname Tommy Boy on the discussion board,
> >>and I have a vague memory that it's British slang for something this
>nice
> >>cleancut young Christian virgin doesn't want to be known as. Anybody
> >>remember?
> >
> >The Chris Farley / David Spade (?) movie about the dumb boojie son, his
> >inheritance and his priapismic mate? Critics hated it, lots of young
>'uns
> >loved it, and I never saw it, so can't say anything else.
> >
> >The only British connection that comes to mind is Tommy as British
>infantryman.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Rob.
> >
> >
> >

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