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单词 tatty
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tattyn.

Brit. /ˈtati/, U.S. /ˈtædi/
Forms: Also tattie, tattee, tatti.
Etymology: < Hindi ṭaṭṭī.
East India.
A screen or mat, usually made of the roots of the fragrant cuscus grass, which is placed in a frame so as to fill up the opening of a door or window, and kept wet, in order to cool and freshen the air of a room. Abbreviated tat n.3
ΘΚΠ
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
1792 J. L. Williams in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 131 Tatties..are affixed to the door or window frames, and kept constantly sprinkled with water.
1809 T. D. Broughton Lett. Mahratta Camp (1892) x. 83 The hot winds have set in, and we are obliged to make use of tattees, a kind of screens made of the roots of a coarse grass called Kus.
1811 H. Martyn in Mem. (1825) iii. 342 I got a tattie made of the branches of the date tree, and a Persian peasant to water it.
1901 Indian Standard 16 Mar. 1/1 Those who..have neither Khas Tatties nor thermantidotes will pant..for want of fresh air.
attributive.1848 tr. W. Hoffmeister Trav. Ceylon & Continental India vii. 277 [Rooms with] but one external entrance, and that closed up by means of a tatty-frame.

Derivatives

tattied adj. /ˈtætɪd/ furnished with a tatty or tatties.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > screen > [adjective] > covered with screen mat
tattied1894
1894 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 387/2 The Anglo-Indian is a close prisoner within the kus-kus tattied walls.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tattyadj.1

Brit. /ˈtati/, U.S. /ˈtædi/, Scottish English /ˈtatɪ/
Forms: Also 1500s taty, tawty, tattie, 1800s tawtie, tautie.
Etymology: apparently related in form and sense to Old English tættec a rag, a tatter; compare also tat n.4, which is not evidenced so early, and may be a back-formation.
Scottish.
Of hair, tangled, matted; of an animal or skin, shaggy with matted hair.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > tangled
tattered1340
unkempt?a1439
dishevelc1450
tatty1513
tautyc1560
feltered1567
dishevelled1582
elf-locked1647
tatted1716
tauted1786
matty-haired1824
tangle-haired1861
draggle-haired1865
tangle-headed1884
waulked1894
natty1974
the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > beard > types of
tatty1513
writhledc1600
whey-colour1602
Cain-coloureda1616
whey1663
shag-rag1868
Jesus1938
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xii. 63 A felloun bustuus and gret lyoun skyn, Terrible and rouch, wyth taty lokyrand haris.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xi. 166 The hare of his berde was lang and taty [v.r. tawty].
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vii. 189 Wha wad hae thought there had been as muckle sense in his tatty pow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tattyadj.2

Brit. /ˈtati/, U.S. /ˈtædi/
Etymology: < tat n.5 + -y suffix1.
colloquial.
1. Of a person, an animal: untidy, disreputable, ‘scruffy’. Cf. tatty adj.1
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adjective] > ragamuffin
rejagged1522
shag-ragc1590
ragamuffin1602
ragamuffa1626
trampish1861
tramp-like1904
tatty1933
1933 N. Coward Design for Living ii. iii. 67 Going round in a troupe, with all those tatty old girls.
1951 J. Cannan And All I Learned x. 165 You mustn't call Brownie a tatty old trout.
1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 38 I've seen the painter..rather a tatty chappy by their standards.
1978 Lancashire Life Apr. 36/2 A widower living with his one son and a tatty collie dog, he had been a soldier for many years.
2. Of clothes, decoration, etc.: shabby, tawdry, cheap.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adjective] > tawdry
tinsel1595
gingerbread1631
tawdry1676
frippish1787
tinselly1811
specious1816
gingerbready1845
foofaraw1848
twopence coloured1859
tarty1918
tartish1929
tatty1940
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > of inferior quality or value or appearance
poorc1300
vile1526
mangya1529
fine1565
palterlya1637
scrubby1754
nice1798
shabby1805
waff-like1808
neat1824
chronic1861
tacky1862
shamblya1937
tatty1940
low-rent1966
scrungy1974
1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie vii. 117 The ‘King's’ tatty striped wall-papers.
1951 ‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow vii. 84 Ivan pushed up his tatty fur hat.
1959 H. R. F. Keating Death & Visiting Firemen xv. 195 You're a man, I can see that, in spite of your tatty old clothes.
1963 Times 4 June 14/2 Nineteenth-century-style songs, played by a jaunty orchestra before tatty red-plush curtains and even tattier scenery, accompany the high jinks.
1976 Sunday Post (Glasgow) 26 Dec. 29/4 It [sc. the car] was a tatty green, so a pal and I painted it navy blue.
3. Of a place or a building: badly cared for, neglected, run down.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > resulting from neglect
rusty-dusty1558
fusty1609
musty-fusty1857
cobwebbed1905
sleazy1941
tatty1956
1956 L. McIntosh Oxf. Folly iv. 53 This is Oxford's latest coffee-bar... The others are getting so tatty.
1966 Listener 12 May 686/1 Some distance from the edge of the Falls a sizeable crack has opened up... Neither the Americans nor the Canadians can afford to have Niagara looking so tatty.
1978 L. Heren Growing up on The Times iii. 63 The car drove through the rather tatty outskirts of Tel Aviv.
4. transferred. In other miscellaneous uses.
ΚΠ
1957 Listener 19 Dec. 1026/1 Look what we did to that tatty second act.
1959 Economist 28 Mar. 1153/2 The Prime Minister's reply looks like a foretaste of the tattier tactics that will be used by the less inhibited Tories in the election.
1965 New Statesman 9 Apr. 585/2 The entire vision's too enormous for accommodation within the tatty ingenuities of the stage.
1975 J. Morgan in R. Crossman Diaries I. 376 This was a somewhat tatty account of Labour's first year in Government, prepared in Transport House as a diatribe against the Tories.

Derivatives

ˈtattily adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adverb] > in neglected or dilapidated manner
tatteredly1677
trampishly1889
tattily1957
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adverb] > tawdrily
tawdrily1736
tattily1957
1957 Observer 29 Sept. 12/1 The keynote of these tattily exotic revues is imitation.
1959 S. Gibbons Pink Front Door ix. 118 I've got you the rooms. Four of them, furnished rather tattily.
ˈtattiness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > resulting from neglect
tattiness1952
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun] > tawdriness
tawdriness1670
frippery1802
tattiness1952
1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. v. 93 He rejected the ‘tattiness’ of dead mullion and withered sycamore berries.
1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 8 The impression of tarted up tattiness.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Oct. 1118/5 The novel is firmly set in the very recent past..and rock music, fashion, the death of Elvis, the tattiness of London are described in detail.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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