tatn.1
/tat/, U.S. /tæt/ slang.
1. plural tats: Dice; esp. false or loaded dice.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice
diec1330
bicched bonesc1386
bonec1405
dalyc1440
huckle-bone1542
devil's bones1597
tat1688
St Hugh's bones1785
ivory1830
astragal1850
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > false or loaded
stop-dice1540
bar1545
flat1545
gourd1545
barred dicec1555
bristle-dicec1555
fulhamc1555
graviersc1555
high manc1555
langretc1555
low manc1555
cheat1567
dice of vantage?1577
demy1591
forger1591
squarier1592
tallmen?1592
stop cater trey1605
demi-bar1606
downhill1664
high runner1670
low runner1670
doctor1688
tat1688
uphill1699
cut1711
loaded dice1771
dispatcher1798
dispatch1819
miss-out1928
1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia i. i. 5 Hack... Pox o' the Tatts for me: I believe they put the Doctor upon me. Belf. Sen. Tatts, and Doctor! what's that? Sham. The Tools of Sharpers, false Dice.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tatts, false Dice.
a1798 J. Palmer Like Master like Man (1811) I. xv. 215 He ransacks every house in St. James's parish, where the tats are at work, to punish those for what he, himself, practised.
1887 W. E. Henley Villon's Straight Tip ii Rattle the tats, or mark the spot.
2. plural tats, tatts. Teeth; now usually with reference to a set of false teeth. slang (chiefly Australian).
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun]
teetha900
munpinsc1475
gams1508
peg1598
tusk1632
masticator1681
headrail1767
ivory1783
tombstone1809
dominos1828
dental1837
toothy-peg1840
fang1841
cruncher1859
chomper1884
teg1886
Hampstead Heath1887
pearly1914
gnasher1919
tat1919
pearly whites1935
chopper1937
1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 49 Tats, teeth.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 119/2 Tats, teeth.
1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 131 He'd lost his ‘tatts’ in a brawl in Townsville the night before we left Australia.
1976 Express (Austral.) 3 Nov. 2/3 Talking of ‘tats’ a dental standards official said false teeth for animals are nothing new.
Compounds
See also tatsman n.
tat-box n. a dice-box.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > dice-box
dice-box1552
dicing-box1571
box1592
casting-box1616
rattlea1732
tat-box1819
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 217 Tatt-box, a dice-box.
tat-monger n. a sharper who uses false dice.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > player of games of chance > cheat or swindler
butter1474
rooka1568
steal-counter1588
nicker1669
sharper1681
tat-monger1688
gambler1735
blackleg1767
gouger1790
sharp1797
tatsman1825
leggism1843
spieler1859
sniggler1887
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > player
tavlereOE
dice-player1377
dicer1408
tirler of square bones1609
caster1664
tat-monger1688
setter1726
tatsman1825
throwster1832
shooter1910
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > player > cheat
colec1555
foisterc1555
cogger1576
palmer1671
topper1671
tat-monger1688
tatsman1825
dice-man1871
1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia i. i. 5 He was but a Sharper, a tat-monger.
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tattattn.3
Anglo-Indian.
= tatty n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > screen > [noun] > other types of
speer1379
traverse1400
transom-lattice1689
blind1730
window blind1730
spire1768
Venetian window-blind1769
window shade1789
tatty1792
tat1810
Japanese screen1872
fusuma1880
curtain1895
mosquito door1929
tuku-tuku1936
fly-wire door1952
table screen1971
1810 M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India (1813) 125 During the hot winds tats (a kind of mat), made of the root of the koosa grass,..are placed against the doors and windows.
1837 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 77 I have a tatt, or thick mat, at my window, which excludes the sun, and men sit outside pouring water on it all day, so that the wind..blows always cooled through the water.
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tattattn.4
Anglo-Indian.
A native pony of India; = tattoo n.3
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > native Indian
tattoo1784
tatc1840
c1840 in Parker Bole Ponjis (1851) II. 215 With its bright brass patent axles, and its little hog maned tatts.
1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 216 The pony (familiarly called tat—corruption of the native name for the small animal, tattoo).
1891 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 684 Cantering his tat up to the door.
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tatn.5
slang.
a. A rag; also (in singular), poorly made or tasteless clothes. Hence, a shabby person, a slut.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > other
disguise1340
disguisingc1386
shiftc1570
French cut1606
knaverya1616
small clothes1625
small storesa1643
nugging-dress1699
kilting1721
fancy dress1770
under-habit1772
man-millinery1790
sheen1802
costume1818
ingubu1833
bedizenment1837
tat1839
extravaganza1860
rational dress1873
rubber1876
pearly1890
new look1920
collection1921
Daks1933
smart casual1943
separates1945
trapeze1958
Carnaby Street1965
haute boutique1966
kinderwhore1994
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > textile material
ragsa1350
pelt1567
tat1839
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > piece of > rag > a rag
clout?c1225
rata1250
ragc1390
shrag?a1400
tatter-wagc1400
tatter1402
jag1555
libbet1627
tatter-wallop1808
tat1839
tag1840
trollopa1843
fent1844
raggle1888
lappie1892
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > one who is poorly or shabbily dressed
dowdc1330
dowdy1581
dud1871
tat1936
parish rig1937
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] > woman or girl
slut1402
dawa1500
drab?1518
dawkin1565
suss?1565
mab1568
drassock1573
daggle-tail1577
drossel1581
driggle-draggle1588
draggle-tail1596
soss1611
slatternc1640
slutterya1652
feague1664
traipse1676
drazel1678
mopsy1699
dab1736
slammerkin1737
rubbacrock1746
trollop1753
dratchell1755
heap1806
dolly-mop1834
sozzle1848
tat1936
scrubber1959
1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 168 The paper makers get the tats and never tip the motts a posh. [Translation] Thieves who pretend to belong to paper mills get the rags and never pay the women a farthing.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 424/2 I'll tell you about the tat (rag) gatherers; buying rags they call it.
1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 9/2 The paper makers get the tats.
1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 I. 93 You should have seen the company: a couple of old tats got up as Elizabethan pages.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain iv. 53 Do they think it's any catch living in a mausoleum with a couple of old tats?
1972 D. Goddard Blimey! (1974) iv. 43 King's Road beckons the well-heeled traveller into a cloud-cuckoo land of high-priced tat and gear.
1977 M. Drabble Ice Age ii. 212 She was dressed..in a horrible collection of tat—a long shiny maroon skirt, a baggy flowered blouse, a grey cardigan, and a green cardigan on top of that.
b. Rubbish, junk, worthless goods. Also transferred and figurative.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > low quality goods
brayed ware1603
breathed ware1640
mattress1685
third1768
wastera1800
imperfects1862
fifths1881
cheaps1930
irregular1940
borax1942
tat1951
braided wares-
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless > collectively
riff-raff1526
trumpery1531
triff-traff1547
trashery1557
dudgeon1593
lee1593
sweeping1641
lumber1649
worthless1758
trashtrie1786
tagraggery1837
flotsam1861
tat1951
1951 W. Sansom Face of Innocence iv. 55 He was talking of his business in Georgian and early Victorian objets d'oeil. He called it tat.
1958 A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot ii. 151 It was filled..with a jumble of pleasing, valuable antique furniture and hideous, worthless bric-a-brac... ‘I like tatt,’ he had said.
1967 N. Marsh Death at Dolphin ii. 40 A small shop in Walton Street where they sold what he described as: ‘Very superior tatt. Jacobean purses, stomachers and the odd codpiece.’
1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird iv. 52 Are they selling tat medals as well?
1971 D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy iii. 38 Oh no! Not that load of old tat. We threw it out at afternoon [news] conference.
1976 New Musical Express 12 Feb. 26/3 That long deleted album..sounds like a heap of prissy irrelevant whimsical lysergic tat with Disney lyrics.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Sept. 1060/1 New ways of getting the johns to spend their money on previously unsellable old tat.
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tatn.6
(See quot. 1887.)
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the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > (part of) hair
clod1678
medulla1826
tat1887
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > tangled
elf-lock1596
snarl1609
feltering1615
elf-knot1825
tat1887
taut1887
kitchen1964
natty dread1974
1887 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl., Tat, taut, tawt, a tangle, matted tuft or lock of wool or hair.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 409 A slut combs out the tatts from the hair of a scrufulous [sic] child.
1968 Saturday Night Mar. 34/3 The hair was full of tats so it was easy to find places to stick the flowers.
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Tatn.8
/tɑːt/ (A member of) an agricultural people perhaps related to the Tajiks and living in Azerbaijan and Dagestan; also, the Iranian language spoken by this people.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Caucasus > [noun]
Circassian1555
Svan1601
Mingrelian1613
Abkhaz1686
Abaza1693
Lezgin1728
Ossetian1794
Abkhazian1799
Adyghe1799
Ainu1811
Chechen1814
Ossete1814
Kabardian1824
Tat1834
Laz1836
Caucasian1843
Svanetian1854
Ossetin1869
Gurian1876
Avar1881
Ingush1902
Megrelian1961
Megrel1967
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Iranian > specific languages
Baluch1875
Sogdian1909
Sarmatian1922
Tat1939
1834 A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara II. ix. 268 We find as great a variety among the citizens of Toorkistan as in the subdivisions of the Tartars. The aborigines of the country are the Tajiks or Tats.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 25/1 The Tajaks are known as Tâts on the west side of the Caspian.
1939 H. Field Contrib. Anthropol. Iran iii. 157 While..these elements cannot be considered pure Iranian there remain the Talych (91,000), Tat (74,000) and Persian (50,000), all of which are clearly Iranian dialects.
1951 W. K. Matthews Langs. U.S.S.R. vii. 104 The Tat of Azerbaijan, north of Baku, is like Talysh, a divergent variety of Persian.
1981 Jewish Chron. 24 Apr. 6/5 A Tat, a mountain Jew from Daghestan in the Caucasus, Mr Irmiya Rabayev, 31, has been a refusenik for seven years.
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tatn.9
/tat/, U.S. /tæt/ colloquial.
A tattoo (tattoo n.2).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the body > [noun] > tattooing > tattoo
skin print1625
tattoo1777
henna tattoo1906
ink1931
tat1981
1981 C. Harrison Quiet Earth 153 1981 153‘You know what a boob tat is?’.. ‘A tattoo done in jail. Or borstal. Or D.C..Detention Centre. Or remand home.’
1997 Picture (Sydney) 2 July 32/2 She's got a swag of attention-grabbing tatts from one end of her to the other.
2015 M. Sloan High before Honeymoon i. 6 He's got a tat on his neck. Of a dragon. Blowing fire and everything.
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tatv.1
1. transitive. To touch lightly, pat, tap. dialect.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (transitive)] > touch lightly
thackc897
featherc1230
attouchc1480
palp1534
flatter1599
tat1607
touch1647
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike lightly
thackc897
tap?c1225
touchc1330
strike1488
tip1567
tit1589
tat1607
dib1609
bob1745
popc1817
percuss1827
rap1873
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe ii. sig. C3v Come tit mee, come tat mee, come throw a kisse at me.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 853/1 Tat... (3) To touch gently. Hants.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat
threshOE
beatc1000
to lay on?c1225
chastise1362
rapa1400
dressc1405
lack?c1475
paya1500
currya1529
coil1530
cuff1530
baste1533
thwack1533
lick1535
firka1566
trounce1568
fight1570
course1585
bumfeage1589
feague1589
lamback1589
lambskin1589
tickle1592
thrash1593
lam1595
bumfeagle1598
comb1600
fer1600
linge1600
taw1600
tew1600
thrum1604
feeze1612
verberate1614
fly-flap1620
tabor1624
lambaste1637
feak1652
flog1676
to tan (a person's) hide1679
slipper1682
liquora1689
curry-comb1708
whack1721
rump1735
screenge1787
whale1790
lather1797
tat1819
tease1819
larrup1823
warm1824
haze1825
to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839
flake1841
swish1856
hide1875
triangle1879
to give (a person or thing) gyp1887
soak1892
to loosen (a person's) hide1902
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 217 Tat, to flog, or scourge.
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tatv.2
1. intransitive. To do tatting.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > manufacture ornamental textiles or trimmings [verb (intransitive)] > knot or tat
knota1701
tat1882
1842 J. Gaugain Lady's Assistant II. 411 Common Tatting Edging.]
1882 Mrs. Alexander in Belgravia July 104 Winnie produced her tatting, and applied herself to it... At the mention of his mother Laura involuntarily clasped her hands, and Winnie ceased to tatt.
1905 E. Glyn Vicissitudes Evangeline 123 They knitted ties and crocheted comforters, and one even tatted.
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2. transitive. To make by tatting.
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tatv.3
slang.
intransitive. To gather rags.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > dispose of refuse [verb (intransitive)] > collect rags or pick from dust-heaps
tat1851
tot1884
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > manufacture ornamental textiles or trimmings [verb (transitive)] > knot or tat
knot1750
tat1905
tat1910
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 417/1 He goes tatting and billy-hunting in the country (gathering rags and buying old metal).
1910 Nottingham Guardian 2 June The prisoner..told the police that he came in possession of the lead when he went round ‘tatting’.
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tatv.4
/tat/, U.S. /tæt/, Scottish English /tat/ Scottish and northern dialect.
transitive and intransitive. To tangle, or make tangled or matted: see taut v.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > close texture > [verb (transitive)] > mat
felt1513
mat1577
felter1615
tat1829
1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Tat, to mat, to entangle.
1887 in D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Tat, to mat together.
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tatv.5
/tat/, U.S. /tæt/ colloquial.
transitive. To mark (a person, part of the body) with a tattoo; = tattoo v.2 Usually in passive. Also with up.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the body > beautify (the body) [verb (transitive)] > tattoo the body
pounce1555
pink1611
tattoo1769
puncture1777
tat1982
1982 G. Newbold Big Huey 255 Tatt (n) and (v) Tattoo.
1998 P. Grace Baby No-eyes (1999) x. 93 Her bony cheeks each had a little cross tatted on them.
2003 A. Greenwald Nothing feels Good ii. vi. 70 A world where..getting pierced and tatted up is as natural as a sweet-sixteen party.
2019 A. Thomas On Come Up xxii. 300 His name will get tatted on somebody's arm. He'll forever be a hero who lost his life too soon, not the villain who ruined my life.
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TAT
TAT n. Psychology thematic apperception test.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > testing of personality > [noun] > projective test
Thematic Apperception Test1935
projection test1946
TAT1946
projective1950
1946 Jrnl. Presonality 15 70 The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)..is a projective device which purports to reveal the basic personality characteristics of individuals.
1952 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. May 101 There are..other and more satisfactory objective methods for investigating..the temperamental and general behavioural traits... A ‘global’ picture can be obtained from the use of such techniques as Rorschach or T.A.T.
1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. iv. 49 There are various ways of scoring TAT stories for aggressiveness.
1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 88 191 The standard Murray TATs..were not considered appropriate.
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