1. Tom Sawyer - Verb
2. Tom Sawyer - Proper noun
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a popular 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River.
Tom Sawyer (third-person singular simple present Tom Sawyers, present participle Tom Sawyering, simple past and past participle Tom Sawyered)
To convince someone to volunteer, especially to do something which one should do oneself.
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain
I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense. Robertson Davies
George then sees a copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer signed by Clarence, who reminds him that "No man is a failure who has friends". Source: Internet
Awhile ago I read Tom Sawyer in large part because I wanted a window into how kids, and boys in particular, used to live. Source: Internet
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn (the protagonist and first-person narrator ) and his friend, Thomas "Tom" Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adventures (detailed in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ). Source: Internet
A port town on the Mississippi, Hannibal inspired The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published by Twain in 1876 when he was looking back on his childhood with nostalgia. Source: Internet