Having unkempt dishevelled hair, of irregular length; shaggy. Cf. tatty, adj.1 Obsolete.

Of hair, a beard, etc.: not combed, well-maintained, or neatly arranged; untidy, disarrayed, scruffy.

Of hair: = dishevelled, adj. 2.

Of hair, tangled, matted; of an animal or skin, shaggy with matted hair.

= tatty, adj.1 Cf. slightly earlier tauted, adj.

In various senses of the verb.

Of the hair: Unconfined by head-gear, hanging loose, flung about in disorder; unkempt.

having elf-locks or tangled hair.

= tatty, adj.1 Cf. tauted, adj.

Of hair, the coat of an animal, etc.: tangled, matted; long and unkempt. Of a person or animal: having tangled, unkempt hair; shaggy. Cf. earlier…

With hair hanging wet and untidy.

Of hair: matted, tangled. rare.

Of the hair: matted or uncombed, as in dreadlocks. Hence of a person: wearing dreadlocks, Rastafarian, esp. in natty dread (see dread, n. 4b). Also…