# Tom Sawyer

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. 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.

## Etymology
The verb is a reference to the title character of the novel.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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