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).

n.1792

adj.¹1513

adj.²1933

单词	tatty
释义	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). < n.1792adj.¹1513adj.²1933
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tattyn.

Derivatives

tattyadj.1

tattyadj.2

Derivatives

tattyadj.¹

tattyadj.²