Cutty Sark wind. The ship was named after Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns's 1791 poem "Tam o' Shanter". The ship's figurehead, the original of which has been attributed to carver Fredrick Hellyer of Blackwall, is a stark white carving of a bare-breasted Nannie Dee with long black hair holding a grey horse's tail in her hand. In the poem she wore a linen (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was "cutty", or in other words far too short. The erotic sight of her dancing
Cutty Sark (whisky) film "The Associate", Whoopi Goldberg plays character Laurel Ayres who has to quickly create a fictional white man's name. She is inspired by a bottle of Cutty Sark and uses the name Robert S. Cutty. Cutty Sark is the mentioned in Gary Paulsen's young adult novel, "The Crossing", which tells the story of an alcoholic sergeant who helps a young boy immigrate to El Paso. Cutty Sark also features in the film "Goodfellas" as cases of it are transported from the back of a truck into a restaurant. Cutty Sark is drunk in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Season 2