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▪ I. tattoo, n.1|tæˈtuː|
Forms: α. 7 tap-too, tap too, tapp too, 7–8 taptow, 7–9 taptoo. β. 7 tat too, tato, 8 tatoo, 9 tattoe, 7– tattoo.
[In 17th c. tap-too, a. Du. taptoe in same sense; f. tap the tap (of a cask), + toe = doe toe ‘shut’. So Sw. tapto, Sp. (1706) tatu. Cf. Ger. zapfenstreich, LG. tappenslag, Da. tappenstreg, with the first element the same, and second element meaning ‘stroke, beat’.
Although Du. tap toe was in military use in our sense 1 in the 17th c., there is reason to doubt if this was its original use. Tap toe = doe den tap toe ‘put the tap to’, ‘close or turn off the tap’, was app. already in colloquial use for ‘shut up! stop! cease!’; Dr. Kluyver points out, in a play of 1639 from Emden, Doch hier de tap van toe = ‘but here we shut up’, or ‘say no more’.]
1. Mil. A signal made, by beat of drum or bugle call, in the evening, for soldiers to repair to their quarters in garrison or tents in camp.
α1644Col. Hutchinson's Orders in T. C. Hine Nottingham, etc. (1876) App. §8 If anyone shall bee found tiplinge or drinkinge in any Taverne, Inne, or Alehouse after the houre of nyne of the clock at night, when the Tap-too beates, hee shall pay 2s. 6d. Ibid. §10 After the houre of nyne of the clock at night, after the taptoo hath beaten, untill the Revelly hath beaten the next morninge. 1645N. Drake Siege Pontefr. (Surtees) 65 Not to stay there any longer but till tapp too beate, which was about 10 a clock. 1675Lond. Gaz. No. 1014/4 The third night, after..the Taptow had beaten, we made a very good Retreat, without the loss of a Man. 1706Phillips (ed. 6), Tat-too or Tap-too, the beat of Drum at Night for all Soldiers to repair to their Tents. 1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict., Taptow, tattoo. 1803Collins Gen. & Garrison Orders (1879) 30 After the beating of the taptoo. 1833Sir C. J. Napier Colonies 190 The soldiers are just able to hear the ‘taptoo’ beat.
β1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xix. (Roxb.) 153/2 The drumer is to beat all maner of beats, as a Call, a Troope, a March,..a Retreit, a Tato, and a Revally. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 74 None but Christians lodge within the City [Bacein], the Banyans repairing to the Suburbs upon Tattoo. 1767in R. Rogers Jrnls. (1883) 238 note, Your memorialist must further inform you that Rum was let out of the Fort after tatoo. 1814Scott Wav. lxvii, I question if the red-coats hae beat the tattoo yet, and we're not safe till then. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 259 The Tattoo is to beat at Eight o'clock in the Winter, and at Nine o'clock in the Summer Season. 1884Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 63/2 The Tattoo concludes by the ‘Second Post’ or ‘Last Post’.
b. A military entertainment consisting of an elaboration of the tattoo by extra music and performance of exercises by troops, generally at night and by torch or other artificial light. (So G. zapfenstreich.)
1742H. Walpole Lett. (1903) I. 216 You know one loves a review and a tattoo. 1904Daily News 8 Aug. 7 The Sherwood Foresters..carried out the tattoo under the direction of Lieut. Parkinson. 1907Standard 19 Jan. 6/7 After dark there was a torchlight tattoo, in which 800 men took part.
c. A drum-beat in general, as a means of raising an alarm, attracting attention, etc.
1688in Boys Sandwich (1792) 760 The news..caused us..to keep a strong watch, and the tattoo was sent about. 1709Steele Tatler No. 109 ⁋3 A young Lady cannot be married, but all the Impertinents in Town must be beating the Tattoo from one Quarter of the Town to the other, to show they know what passes. 1717Prior Alma i. 454 All those, whose hearts are loose and low Start if they hear but the tattoo. 1872C. Gibbon For the King i, The drum beat a reckless tattoe.
fig.1579Dilworth Pope 87 Every such advertisement is a tattoo for all the mercenary scribblers in a nation.
2. transf. A beating or pulsation as of a drum; the action of beating, thumping, or rapping continuously upon something.
1755H. Walpole Lett. (1846) III. 136 Can I help feeling a tattoo at my heart, when the Duke of Newcastle makes as great a figure in history as Burleigh or Godolphin? 1820Sporting Mag. VI. 178 He..played such a tattoo upon his antagonist's head, as rendered him almost senseless. 1840Thackeray Bedford-Row Conspir. iii, Beginning to play a rapid tattoo with her feet. 1878Masque Poets 97 The hail begins to beat outside A tattoo for the storm.
b. devil's tattoo: the action of idly tapping or drumming with the fingers, etc. upon a table or other object, in an irritating manner, or as a sign of vexation, impatience, or the like.
1803M. Edgeworth Belinda xvii, Mrs. Freke beat the devil's-tattoo for some moments. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. ii, The Peer sat in a musing mood, playing the Devil's tattoo on the library table. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) II. viii. iv. 544 Beating the ‘devil's tattoo’ with the fingers on the table, is a recognized mark of impatience.
▪ II. tattoo, n.2|tæˈtuː|
Forms: 8 tat(t)aow, 8–9 tattow, tatoo, 9 tatto, tatu, 8– tattoo.
[c gray][In 18th c. tattaow, tattow (taˈtaʊ[/c]), a. Polynesian (Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan, etc.) ˈtatau (in Marquesan ˈtatu) n. denoting the markings. (For the vb. the expression is ta ˈtatau to strike or stamp tattoo.)
The word is recorded from Tahiti as tataou in Bougainville's Voyage autour du Monde 1766–9 (Paris 1771), and as tattow in Capt. Cook's First Voyage July 1769. The current Eng. tattoo and F. tatou are perversions of the native name.]
a. The act or practice of tattooing the skin (see tattoo v.2); the mark or design made by tattooing.
[1769Cook Jrnl. 1st Voy. July (1893) 93 Both sexes paint their Bodys, Tattow, as it is called in their Language. This is done by inlaying the Colour of Black under their skins, in such a manner as to be indelible.] 1777G. Forster Voy. round World I. 390 The punctuation which the natives call tattow. 1803J. Burney Discov. S. Sea i. ii. 61 They [natives of the Philippines] had the custom of marking their bodies in the manner, which, to use a word lately adopted from the language of a people more recently discovered, we call tattow. 1863R. F. Burton Abeokuta I. iii. 104 There was a vast variety of tattoos and ornamentation. 1906Athenæum 17 Mar. 334/2 The Kenyahs and Sea-Dayaks also appear to have borrowed the practice of tatu very largely from the Kenyans; but most of the Indonesian tribes have all had..a distinctive tatu.
b. attrib. and Comb., as tattoo mark.
1845J. Coulter Adv. in Pacific xiv. 209 Then entered the tatoo-men. 1892‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claimant xvi. 164 His horny hands and wrists were covered with tattoo-marks. 1899Werner Capt. of Locusts 9 His teeth are not filed, and he has strange tattoo-marks on his face.
▪ III. ˈtattoo, n.3 East Ind.
Also 8 tatoo, 9 tatto, tattu, (tut-hoo).
[a. Hindī ṭaṭṭū.]
A native-bred Indian pony. Also attrib. as tattoo horse, tattoo mare. Abbreviated tat (n.4).
1784in Seton-Karr Select. fr. Calcutta Gaz. (1864) I. 15 On their arrival at the Choultry they found a miserable dooley and 15 tattoo horses. 1800Misc. Tr. in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 171/2 A man mounted on a tattoo came forward to tell us, that [etc.]. 1809Broughton Lett. Mahratta Camp xiv. (1892) 117 These tut,hoos are a breed of small ponies, and are the most useful and hardy little animals in India. 1814Southey in Q. Rev. XII. 200 A Mahratta wife..frequently rides astride..upon a bullock, an ass, or a little tattoo horse. 1886Blackw. Mag. Sept. 365/1 Drawn by tattoos and bullocks.
▪ IV. taˈttoo, v.1
[f. tattoo n.1]
1. trans. To beat (a drum, etc.); to strike (something) with a succession of blows, to thump.
1780S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett (ed. 4) II. 51 A little drum tattoo'd by the timber instrument that served him for an arm. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xvi. 402 Then let us hope he may not have his head tattooed.
2. intr. To beat as upon a drum; to thump, tap, or rap upon something with a succession of blows.
1806Wolcott (P. Pindar) Tristia Wks. 1812 V. 235 There Folly rushes with his dirty boots, Tattoos, and nearly thunders down the dwelling. 1832H. Martineau Ireland iii. 39 Her father..tattooing with his brogues upon the threshold. 1883D. Cook P. Foster's D. iv, Don't tattoo with your fingers, it fidgets me.
b. trans. To cause (something) to rap in this way (upon something else).
1810Splendid Follies I. 57 Miss Betty..sat tattooing one of her shoe-heels upon the hearth.
Hence taˈttooing vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1871B. Harte 2nd Review Grand Army ii, The wandering night-winds seemed to bear The sounds of a far tattooing. 1884Allbutt Visceral Neuroses i. 23 Some little blinking, twitching, or tattooing trick which quickens as thoughts and words come faster.
▪ V. taˈttoo, v.2
Forms: see tattoo n.2
[f. tattoo n.2; already used as a vb. by Capt. Cook.]
1. trans. To form permanent marks or designs upon the skin by puncturing it and inserting a pigment or pigments: practised esp. by many Malayo-Polynesian peoples; also by some ancient nations, and by individuals (e.g. seamen) in developed countries since the 18th c.
a. with the person or part as obj.
1769Cook Jrnl. 1st Voy. July (1893) 93 This method of Tattowing I shall now describe... As this is a painful operation, especially the Tattowing their Buttocks, it is performed but once in their Life times. Ibid. 27 Nov. 164 Few of these people were Tattow'd or marked in the face,..several had their Backsides Tattow'd. 1774F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 325 His hands are very much tattooed. 1774Charac. in Ann. Reg. 61/2 His hands are tattaowed, according to the mode in his native country. 1835Sir J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. xvi. 251 All were tattooed to a greater or less extent. 1846F. Brittan tr. Malgaigne's Man. Oper. Surg. 88 We know that soldiers tattoo their arms and breasts, and impress and trace on them words and figures that neither lotions nor even blisters can efface. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxv. IV. 5 They [Illyrians] shared with the remote Thracian tribes the custom of tattowing their bodies. 1852Mundy Our Antipodes x. (1855) 247 [The Maori women] tattoo the under-lip a deep blue. 1887W. S. Gilbert Ruddigore 1, Look at his arms—tattooed to the shoulder.
b. with the mark or design as object.
1809A. Henry Trav. 248 The women..usually tatoo two lines, reaching from the lip to the chin. 1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. ii, His long skinny arms all covered with anchors and arrows and letters, tattoed in with gunpowder like a sailor-boy's. 1877W. H. Dall Tribes N.W. 89 The..practice of tattooing perpendicular lines on the chin of women. 1902Man II. 99 That a totem should be tatued on a body is a widespread practice.
2. transf. and fig. To mark, spot, or stain, esp. in a permanent way; to affect or characterize permanently as if by marking; to defame, vilify, ‘blacken’ (quot. 1884).
1774Westm. Mag. II. 145 Well I remember when tataow'd you stood, In all the dignity of H―'s blood. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vi. Miseries Stage C. xi, A Harridan with a face tattooed with wrinkles. 1847Longfellow in Life (1891) II. 86 Proof-sheets of Evangeline all tattooed with Folsom's marks. 1884Tribune (N.Y.) June, Mr. Blaine is tattooed... So was Abraham Lincoln... As soon as any man gains public confidence, malignant and envious creatures are found to revile him. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. vi. 177 The pleasure of tattooing myself with tar among the ropes.
Hence tattooed |-ˈuːd| ppl. a., taˈttooing vbl. n. (also concr.; also attrib., as tattooing-needle); also taˈttooage (nonce-wd.), a tattooed design [= F. tatouage]; taˈttooer, one who practises tattooing; taˈttooist, a professional tattooer; taˈttooment, the action or process of tattooing.
1846Thackeray Cornhill to Cairo xiii, Above his *tattooage of the five crosses, the fellow had a picture of two hearts united.
1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 17 The accounts given us in Cook's Voyages of *tattowed Indians. 1791Gilpin Forest Scenery ii. 261 The Indian..doting on her black teeth, and tattooed cheeks. 1846Keightley Notes Virg., Georg. iii. 25 The wild-looking tattooed Britons. 1897P. Warung Tales Old Regime 168 Tattooed anchor on right forearm. 1906Athenæum 17 Mar. 334/2 To classify the tatued peoples of Borneo.
1789Loiterer 18 July 7 The most famous *Tataower in the Country. 1837Fraser's Mag. XVI. 641 The azure dye of the tattooer is lastingly imprinted in the face of an Otaheitan. 1883Daily News 26 Oct. 5/2 The great tattooers among European peoples are French soldiers and French criminals.
1773Charac. in Ann. Reg. 3/2 They have a custom of staining their bodies..which they call *Tattowing. 1830Marryat King's Own iii, The practice of tattooing is very common in the navy. 1859Jephson Brittany xii. 211 Scored..to resemble the tattooing of a New-Zealander. 1877Knight Dict. Mech., Tattooing-needle (Surgical), an instrument for inserting a pigment beneath the epidermis. Used..for coloring white spots on the cornea.
1894Pall Mall G. 5 Dec. 2/1 *Tattooists vied with each other in their efforts to invent new designs.
1885J. H. Dell Dawning Grey, Mind 35 At best But rude *tattooment of embellishment.
▪ VI. tattoo, tattou
variants of tatou, armadillo. |