tatter
/ˈtætə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "You can’t – you shan’t – you don’t – you won’t – you thing of rag and tatter, O!"
- "“Well, away they wint tattherin’ along the road, makin’ the fire fly out o’ the stones at no rate. So whin I seen they'd no eyes, I knew it was onpossible they could ivir see me, so up I got out o’ the ditch, and afther thim wid me along the road as fast as ivir I culd lay fut to ground.”"
Etymology
From Middle English tater, from Old Norse tǫturr, from Proto-Germanic *tat(t)uraz (“tuft, patch”). Cognate with Icelandic tötur (“rag, tatter”).