tatty
1cheap or tawdry; vulgar: a tatty production of a Shakespearean play.
shabby or ill-kempt; ragged; untidy: an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains.
Origin of tatty
1Other words from tatty
- tat·ti·ly, adverb
- tat·ti·ness, noun
Words Nearby tatty
Other definitions for tatty (2 of 2)
or tat·tie
(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.
Origin of tatty
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How to use tatty in a sentence
Amidst the detritus of old amplifiers, beaten up electric guitars and drum kits was a tatty white plastic bag.
Titty and tatty are among the many rhyming compounds of which the meaning is no longer clear.
Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes | Lina Eckenstein"Titty Mouse and tatty Mouse" also ends in a universal calamity which seems to arise from a cause of no great importance.
English Fairy Tales | AnonymousTitty Mouse gleaned an ear of corn, and tatty Mouse gleaned an ear of corn.
English Fairy Tales | Flora Annie SteelBut when Titty went to put hers in, the pot tumbled over, and scalded her to death, and tatty sat down and wept.
English Fairy Tales | Flora Annie Steel
Titty Mouse went a-gleaning, and tatty Mouse went a-gleaning.
English Fairy Tales | Flora Annie Steel
British Dictionary definitions for tatty
/ (ˈtætɪ) /
mainly British worn out, shabby, tawdry, or unkempt
Origin of tatty
1Derived forms of tatty
- tattily, adverb
- tattiness, noun
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