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单词 tauted
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tautedadj.

Brit. /ˈtɔːtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈtɔdəd/, /ˈtɑdəd/, Scottish English /ˈtɔtᵻd/, Irish English /ˈtɒːtəd/
Forms: Scottish 1700s tauted, 1700s tawtet, 1700s–1800s tawted, 1800s tautied, 1800s tawtit, 1800s– tautit; Irish English (northern) 1900s– tauted, 1900s– tawted.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: tatted adj.1
Etymology: Variant of tatted adj.1 Compare earlier tatty adj.1 and slightly later tauty adj.
Scottish and Irish English (northern).
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 tatted adj.1, slightly later tauty adj. Sc. National Dict. (at Taut v.) records this word as still in use in the Northern Isles, Caithness, Angus, and west central Scotland in 1972.
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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 > types of hair > [adjective] > tangled > having
felteredc1450
tauted1786
1786 R. Burns Poems 67 She was nae get o' moorlan tips, Wi' tauted ket, an' hairy hips.
1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs iii, in Poems 10 Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie.
1829 C. Oliphant in R. Chambers Sc. Songs I. 107 Ye're sun-burnt and tatter'd, John Tod, John Tod, Ye're tautit and batter'd, John Tod.
1843 J. Crawford in Whistle-Binkie 5th Ser. 104 While frae the bairnie's tautit hair The frozen crystals hung.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xx. 234 God's truth, it's the tautit laddie!
1917 J. Buchan Poems 51 Back twenty year. A tautit wean, I heard my granny's voice complain.
1959 A. L. Taylor in Burns Chron. 3rd Ser. 8 63 A creeshie bunnet on its heid, A tautit coat heng on its bodie.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 349/2 Tauted, tawted, tangled, matted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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