tammy

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtami/ Rhymes: -æmi === Etymology 1 === Uncertain; compare obsolete French tamise (but if there was borrowing, it is unclear in which direction). ==== Alternative forms ==== tamin tamine taminy ==== Noun ==== tammy (countable and uncountable, plural tammies) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc. === Etymology 2 === From French tamis, assimilated to Etymology 1, above. ==== Noun ==== tammy (plural tammies) (now rare) Alternative form of tamis (“culinary strainer”). ==== Verb ==== tammy (third-person singular simple present tammies, present participle tammying, simple past and past participle tammied) (cooking, transitive) To strain through a tammy. === Etymology 3 === Ellipsis of tammy shanter. ==== Noun ==== tammy (plural tammies) A tam o’shanter hat.