Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tam-o'-shanter.
Wiktionary
- n. A tam o'shanter, a tall knit wool cap traditionally associated with Scotland.
Examples
“Qui tam is short for the Latin phrase "qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur", which means, "he who brings a case on behalf of our lord the King, as well as for himself.”
The Huffington Post: David Isenberg: ABC J'accuse MEP: There is no there there
“Qui tam is short for qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur, which means he “who pursues this action on our Lord the King’s behalf as well as his own.””
“(Qui tam is short for the Latin phrase qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur or "he who brings the action for the king as well as for himself".”
Gary S. Chafetz: UBS Whistleblower Sentenced to 40-Month Prison Term Puts Chill on Whistleblowing
“Note 152: Cotton manuscript, Wolter, no. 10, p. 48: "cunctas optinet stupor in tam horribili facto." back”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“Et sic vere illa parva gens illis magnis innocentibus, qui pro Christo occisi sunt, comparari creditur; quia et ipsa in tam tenera etate labores inmensos et mortem famis, que crudelior est gladio, subire meruit.”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“Apparently, the word tam in reference to Jacob aims to describe the very opposite traits.”
“As the small buses she called tam-tams climbed the mountain road, she saw a cloud of dust blown up and across in the dry riverbed valley below and thought it was a dust storm.”
“He is a man described as tam v'yasher -- that is, wholesome and righteous.”
The Huffington Post: Levi Ben-Shmuel: Suffering, Thanksgiving And The Book of Job
“A'm leeve een Montan 'som'tam' -- som'tam 'een Canada.”
“When struck, a traditional Chinese gong - properly called a tam-tam - produces”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tam’.
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[Open] “What’s that on your head?”
Headgear: “anything worn on the head” (that isn’t part of the head). Hats are fine, but for a more detailed, wider selection of fashionable hats in all colors and sizes, please see Reese Tee’s li...
goggles, wig, headdress, cap, hackamore, halter, bridle, beanie, turban, hat, crown, chapeau and 126 more...
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Davenport
words looked up recently from reading Guy Davenport
flenite, sampan, provender, comitatus, cycladic, surd, scialytic, lignite, plangencies, fugal, zamindary, macaque and 112 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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names of hats
liripipe, cowl, capuchon, liripipium, snood, bonnet, toque, turban, poke, toboggan-cap, crown, fedora and 72 more...
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Invisible Man
Words culled from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
sweetback, inspirit, plasticine, atoss, hyperreceptivity, laugher-at-wounds, necrophily, monopolate, aliveness, thinker-tinker, weltschmerz, klieg and 113 more...
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hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
alternate spellingsbabushka, balaclava, bamoral, baseball cap, beanie, bearskin, beaver hat, beret, billycock, biretta, boater, bobble hat and 422 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (T)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
tabard, tadpole, taffeta, taffy, talisman, tallgrass, tam, tamarind, tamarack, tambourine, tango, tansy and 144 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Damieng's Words
lupine, sapor, boz imp, imp, ovine, saracen, haberdashery, tiebar, shill, cutler, cutaway, lucite and 218 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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head wear
head-where: head-ware: head (at)tire
sallet, kangol, halo, peruke, cockade, tam, beret, helmet, hood, circlet, phylactery, chignon and 51 more...
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can i mention the moon without saying...
esriel, krim, erputiba, ersupupita, ltiky, dancy, giryl, jeleel, bnirke, bnabe, alkon, alcocute and 30 more...
Tweets
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jaime_d From "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" by Guy Davenport Jan 19, 2010