Short for Tammy Shanter, corruption of next.
1894. Lucy B. Walford, Matchmaker, xliv. The letter was foand inside the inner brim of his ‘Tammy.’
1896. Westm. Gaz., 26 Sept., 7/2. The Burns Statue…. The poet stands in an easy attitude…. He wears the ‘tammy,’ the ploughman’s coat and breeches, and the rough Scotch stockings.
