tom.

Tomus (Latin), tome or volume

tom¹ /tom/

1. A male of various animals, esp a cat
2. A name for a big bell
3. A prostitute (police and criminal sl)
4. (with cap) an Uncle Tom (US slang)

To work as a prostitute (police and criminal sl)

Tom and Jerry noun

Hot rum and eggs, spiced and sweetened

tomˈcat noun

A male cat

Tom Collins

See under Collins¹

Tom-noddˈy noun

1. The puffin
2. A fool

Tomˈ-trot noun

A kind of toffee

Long Tom

A long gun, esp one carried amidships on a swivelling carriage

Old Tom

Gin

Tom, Dick, and/or Harry

1. Anybody
2. People in general (also (old) Tom and Tib)

Tom o’ Bedlam

Formerly, a madman let out of an asylum with a licence to beg

Tom Tiddler's ground

1. A place where wealth is to be had for the picking up
2. Debatable land
3. No-man's-land (from a children's game so called)

Uncle Tom see under uncle

tomfool /tom-foolˈ/

1. A great fool
2. A buffoon
3. A trifling person (archaic)

Extremely foolish

To play the fool

tomfoolˈery noun

1. Foolish behaviour
2. Nonsense, rubbish
3. Buffoonery
4. Trifles, ornaments
5. Jewellery, esp stolen jewellery (often shortened to tom; rhyming sl)

tomfoolˈishness noun

• sheep-scoring numerals
• sheep's eyes
• sheep's fescue
• sheep's fescues
• sheep's-foot
• sheepshank
• sheepshanks
• sheep's-head
• sheepshearer
• sheepshearers
• sheepshearing
• sheepshearings
• sheep-silver
• sheepskin
• sheepskins
• sheep's sorrel
• sheep station
• sheep stations
• sheep-stealer
• sheep-stealers
• sheep-stealing
• sheep tick
• sheep ticks
• sheeptrack
• sheeptracks