tom
/tɒm/
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American sound/tɒm/
tom
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- ‘And spaying for females is the same: they remove the whole plumbing system to keep the animal from going into heat and attracting toms and annoying its owner.’
- ‘Some male wildcats mate with domestic females, but the half-breeds rarely survive either because the wild tom returns to kill the kittens as soon as they are born, or householders distrusting their untameable reputation do the same.’
- ‘The resulting difference in size between males, or toms, and females, or hens, requires producers to rely solely on artificial insemination for reproduction.’
- ‘In the same week a ginger tom called Bat was accused of attacking postmen in Kent.’
- ‘The kittens would follow the tom around and when we trapped the last one of them he cried at our door for two days.’
- ‘There are tabbies and toms in white, black, grey and ginger.’
- ‘I donate financially, and have purchased two rescued cats (one adult tom, and one kitten) from you.’
- ‘If the problem is hormone related then neutering is usually an effective solution, especially with troublesome toms!’
- ‘The tom met with an unfortunate accident - sadly after I chased him out of the house he bolted in front of a car.’
- ‘While hens usually travel together, toms roam either in separate flocks or alone.’
- ‘The four-year-old ginger tom moved to the town with owner Sara in January.’
- ‘Fritz is a ginger tom of nine and a half months.’
- ‘Susie took up with a local tom and had a litter of two, a male and a female.’
- ‘While the tabby slumped down to mew her pain the tom rampaged among the females and the other nestlings, tearing throats, breaking knees and elbows, and tossing the smaller ones against the closet wall.’
- ‘You will find that the tom will stop spraying his smelly urine to mark his territory.’
- ‘The hens would be in the low teens, 16 or 17 pounds, and the toms would dress out at 28 pounds.’
- ‘I took off my headphones and listened as he asked, ‘Are you tomming tonight?’’
- ‘There's only one thing that will revive the toms, courgettes, rocket, spinach and fennel - pelletised chicken manure.’
- ‘A topping of onion marmalade, reasonable toms and fresh, herby ricotta couldn't rescue it.’
- ‘Liquidise ripe toms with red onion, cucumber, red pepper, extra virgin olive oil, sherry or balsamic vinegar and chill to let the flavours develop.’
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