tam-o'-shanter
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- noun
- /ˈtæm.oʊˌʃæntər/
- She tugged down on her green tam-o'-shanter as it blew in the wind.
- wear a tam-o'-shanter
Examples
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Well, where's your goggles and tam-o'-shanter? - How come you're selling candy?
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Sometimes she wore an army-green homburg; sometimes a maroon tam-o'-shanter with a plastic hollyhock flower attached to the side.
Fiction book (2000) -
One wore a wool tam-o'-shanter.
Fiction book (1996) -
When Monty went to pick up his books, a little guy in a tam-o'-shanter beat him to it.
Fiction book (1993) -
She tugged down on her green tam-o'-shanter.
Fiction book (1990) -
Old Lady Balmerino, resplendent in a feathered tam-o'-shanter, apparently opening a village fete.
Fiction book (1990) -
She's tucked her dreads up into a knit tam o' shanter.
Fiction book (1990) -
Despite her short plaid skirt, red sweater, rabbit-skin jacket, and knitted tam-o'-shanter, she looked like a police captain (Miss Lonelyhearts, 89).
Academic text (2016) -
On the golf course, Stewart dressed to the nines in colorful knickers, a tam-o'-shanter, and spectacular shoes.
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Even on the wild coast of Maine, he bounded over the surf-lashed rocks in a tam-o'-shanter, complete with pompom.
Synonyms
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A round wool hat with a small ball on top, often worn in Scotland
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A round wool hat with a small ball on top that people wear in Scotland
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Etymology
The word tam-o'-shanter comes from a famous Scottish poem where a man called Tam O'Shanter wore a round wool cap. In Scots, o' means 'of' and tam was a common name for a cap, so the name came to mean the flat, round wool hat we know today, often with a pompom.