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adjective, tat·ti·er, tat·ti·est.
1.
cheap or tawdry; vulgar: a tatty production of a Shakespearean play.
2.
shabby or ill-kempt; ragged; untidy: an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains.
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Tatty
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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noun, plural tat·ties.
(in India) a screen, usually made of coarse, fragrant fibers, placed over a window or door and kept moistened with water in order to cool and deodorize the room.
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| tattie or tatty (ˈtætɪ) | |
| —n , pl -ties | |
| a Scot or dialect word for potato | |
| tatty or tatty | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
tatty
1513, "tangled or matted" (of hair), Scottish, probably related to O.E. tættec "a rag" (see tatter). Sense of "tattered, ragged, shabby" first recorded 1933.
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