Tam o' Shanter, hero of the poet's 1793 work, gave his name to the Scottish pomponed woolen cap. Nannie, Tam's lass memorable for her brief undergarments, was later immortalized as the figurehead of a famous 19th-century tea clipper. That clipper was christened the Cutty Sark—cutty sark is a Scottish dialect term for "a woman's short undergarment":

For it was Nannie's cutty sark o' Paisley harn . . . tho' sorely scanty, that was her best, and she was vauntie. Vauntie by the way, means proud or vain.

And yes, the folks behind the alcoholic blend billed as the original Scots whisky also recognized Scotland's national poet when they named their malt whiskey Cutty Sark.