Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tommy cooker

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables
tom-my -cook-er
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A portable stove issued to British soldiers during World War I and II.

Archaic

noun

The M4 Sherman tank, due to its likelihood to "brew up" and explode after being hit by German tank fire in World War II. Little to no contemporary evidence of this definition exists.

Archaic; Slang

Etymology

From tommy (“soldier”) + cooker.

Usage

Inflected Forms

tommy cookers (plural)

Questions

What does tommy cooker mean?
A portable stove issued to British soldiers during World War I and II.
Where does tommy cooker come from?
From tommy (“soldier”) + cooker.

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