tammy
A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains,…A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
» Lacking proper lighting, Tammy's room was depressingly dingy.
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2 sentencesLacking proper lighting, Tammy's room was depressingly dingy.
In Tammy's mind, every party was a den of iniquity.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
A tam o’shanter hat.
- plain-woven (often glazed) fabric of wool or wool and cotton used especially formerly for linings and garments and curtains
- a woolen cap of Scottish origin
Origin
Uncertain; compare obsolete French tamise (but if there was borrowing, it is unclear in whUncertain; compare obsolete French tamise (but if there was borrowing, it is unclear in which direction).
Ellipsis of tammy shanter.
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Forms
plural: tammiesSynonyms
2 synonyms- a woolen cap of Scottish origin:tamtam-o'-shanter
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.