John Tamson’s Man

a henpecked husband: one ordered here, and ordered there and ordered everywhere. Tameson—i.e. spiritless, the slave even of a Tame-son.

“‘The deil’s in the wife!ʹ said Cuddie. ‘Dʹye think I am to be John Tamson’s man, and maistered by a woman aʹ the days oʹmy life?”—Sir W. Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xxxix.