tat
/tæt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "tourist tat"
- "And it agreed with the editorial cartoon which featured a newsman doing a live report in front of a smouldering building and saying, "And it seems millions of pounds of meaningless tat has been lost to the nation for ever.""
- "She's so swishy in her satin and tat / In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat"
- "And so each morning before daybreak I am up, and having dispatched my luggage on the backs of coolies after much noise and bustle, without which no natives can work, I mount my tat as the sun begins to touch the higher hills, and start on my morning ride of twelve miles."
- "Now give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tats, right away I want it now."
- "I'm diplomatic playing pen and pad. Rat-a-tat, you're a scaredy-catcause I have a tat put you up like that. You can't stand that cause you've got to scat."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: टाट, टट्टू, *tāt