tammy
/ˈtami/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms tammies tammying tammied tamin tamine taminy Tammi Tammie
- noun A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
- verb (cooking, transitive) To strain through a tammy.
- noun A tam o’shanter hat.
- proper noun A female given name popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.
Synonyms
Etymology
Uncertain; compare obsolete French tamise (but if there was borrowing, it is unclear in which direction).
From French tamis, assimilated to Etymology 1, above.
Ellipsis of tammy shanter.
A diminutive of Tamsin and Tamara, later also used for new names beginning with Tam such as Tamika and Tamiya.
Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tammy”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details