Tammy vs Tommy - What's the difference?
tammy | tommy |
A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
A sieve, or strainer; a tamis.
A tam o’shanter hat.
(colloquial) Tommy Atkins; a typical private in the British army; a British soldier.
* 1892 , , "Tommy"
* 1929 , , :
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, page 129:
As nouns the difference between tammy and tommy
is that tammy is a kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc while Tommy is tommy Atkins; a typical private in the British army; a British soldier.As proper nouns the difference between tammy and tommy
is that tammy is a female given name popular in the 1960s and the 1970s while Tommy is a diminutive=Thomas given name.tammy
English
(wikipedia tammy)Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; compare obsolete French tamise (but if there was borrowing, it's unclear in which direction).Noun
(tammies)Etymology 2
From (etyl) tamis, assimilated to Etymology 1, above.Noun
(tammies)Etymology 3
Shortened from (tammy shanter).Noun
(tammies)tommy
English
Noun
(Tommies)- Then it's Tommy' this, an' '''Tommy''' that, an' "' Tommy , 'ow's yer soul?"
- But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll
- And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies , with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpences.
- He liked the Germans better than he did the French; but for all that, if he went down the back streets of a night, it was with three or four British Tommies , in case the Jerries weren't as friendly as they made out.