tatty
/ˈtæti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A potato.
adj
noun
A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.
Indian usage
noun
noun
Alternative form of tat (“tattoo”).
Example Sentences
- "I'm buying fucking tatties."
- "The tramp wore a tatty old overcoat."
- "I wish you would have smiled in the bakery Or sat on a tatty settee At a mutual friend's gathering"
- "I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare."
- "Hubbard says he could easily take on more books than he would be able to sell, and some “tatty paperbacks” have such a low value that they end up getting recycled."
- "[…] tatties are placed in front of the verandahs to keep out the rains during the monsoon; […]"