Associations to the word «Tammany»
Wiktionary
TAMMANY, proper noun. Tammany Hall, a building near Union Square in New York City, formerly headquarters for the New York County Democratic Party.
TAMMANY, proper noun. The nickname of the New York County Democratic Party, until the success of reform elements in the 1970s.
TAMMANY, proper noun. A style of corrupt democratic politics.
Dictionary definition
TAMMANY, noun. A political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.