tammie Sc.
(ˈtɑːmɪ)
[Sc. f. Tommy.]
1. Name of a loaf of home-baked bread, used in Edinburgh and the surrounding district.
| 1828 Moir Mansie Wauch xviii, Their usual rations of beef and tammies. 1890 Anent Old Edinburgh 83 The pay was [1807] 6d. a day and a coarse roll called a ‘tammie’. |
2. tammie-norie. A local name in Scotland for the Puffin, Fratercula arctica; also Tommy Noddy.
| 1701 J. Brand Descr. Zetl. viii. (1703) 119 Each kind or sort do Nestle by themselves; as the Scarfs by themselves, so the Cetywaicks, Tominories, Mawes, etc. 1816 Scott Antiq. vii, ‘Did I not hear a halloo?’ ‘The skreigh of a Tammie Norie’, answered Ochiltree, ‘I ken the skirl weel’. 1841 R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scotl. (1870) 190 The Puffin. Tammie Norie o' the Bass Canna kiss a bonny lass. 1896 Newton Dict. Birds 943 Tammy-Norie, a northern form of Tom-Noddy, and a name for the Puffin. |