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tommying

tommying is the present participle and gerund of tommy.

Meaning of tommy

Verb

tommy (third-person singular simple present tommies, present participle tommying, simple past and past participle tommied)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) To pay (employees) according to the truck system, with goods instead of money.

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Questions about tommying

What is tommying the present participle and gerund of?
Tommying is the present participle and gerund of tommy.

Words near tommying in the dictionary

  1. tommyfish
  2. tommyhawk
  3. tommyhawked
  4. tommyhawking
  5. tommyhawks
  6. tommying
  7. tommyknocker
  8. tommyknockers
  9. tommyrot
  10. tommyrots
  11. tommyto

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tommying (page history and authors); tommy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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