tammy

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtami/

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  Rhymes: -æmi

Uncertain; compare obsolete French tamise (but if there was borrowing, it is unclear in which direction).

• tamin
• tamine
• taminy

tammy (countable and uncountable, plural tammies)

1. A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.

From French tamis, assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

tammy (plural tammies)

1. (now rare) Alternative form of tamis (“culinary strainer”).

tammy (third-person singular simple present tammies, present participle tammying, simple past and past participle tammied)

1. (cooking, transitive) To strain through a tammy.

Ellipsis of tammy shanter.

tammy (plural tammies)

1. A tam o’shanter hat.