Sc. [Sc. f. TOMMY.]

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  1.  Name of a loaf of home-baked bread, used in Edinburgh and the surrounding district.

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1828.  Moir, Mansie Wauch, xviii. Their usual rations of beef and tammies.

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1890.  Anent Old Edinburgh, 83. The pay was [1807] 6d. a day and a coarse roll called a ‘tammie.’

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  2.  Tammie-norie. A local name in Scotland for the Puffin, Fratercula arctica; also Tommy Noddy.

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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.

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1816.  Scott, Antiq., vii. ‘Did I not hear a halloo?’ ‘The skreigh of a Tammie Norie,’ answered Ochiltree, ‘I ken the skirl weel.’

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1841.  R. Chambers, Pop. Rhymes Scotl. (1870), 190. The Puffin, Tammie Norie o’ the Bass Canna kiss a bonny lass.

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1896.  Newton, Dict. Birds, 943. Tammy-Norie, a northern form of Tom-Noddy, and a name for the Puffin.

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