Definition of tatty in English:

tatty

adjectivetattier, tattiest ˈtatiˈtædi

informal

1Worn and shabby; in poor condition.
〈非正式〉褴褛的；破烂的，破损的
tatty upholstered furniture
Example sentencesExamples
- In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti.
- A tatty, threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll.
- Bookshop rummaging this afternoon, ended up with the exchange of $4.50 for a dog-eared tatty copy of Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard.
- The condition of the interior would best be described as tatty.
- These include banning sportswear and tatty jeans, more bouncers, an orderly queuing system, better foyer lighting, a strict ID policy and training bar staff to refuse to serve drunks and eject rowdy customers.
- Even James, the valet, looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf.
- It's all very well saying that a worn and tatty book got that way because it's been well used, and continues to be well used, but they don't look good on my new shelves.
- The action takes place in a tatty, family-run city hotel managed by Helena (Mercedes Morán) who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife.
- He looked dishevelled in old, crumpled clothes, his hair matted and his lips cracking, his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold.
- We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again.
- These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted.
- To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself.
- It needs to look at infrastructure and the streets of tatty old ex-boarding houses.
- When they saw this 70-odd-year-old bloke in tatty green trousers walking towards them they thought it was an old farmer trying to get help for some young pilot who was in trouble.
- Phased cuts in educational expenditure as part of Structural Adjustment Programmes left buildings in a tatty, dangerous and unsanitary condition.
- In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted, visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked, complete with ‘rusting pipes and crumbling concrete’.
- A third guy, who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge, wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper.
- The furniture is tatty and the books looked about as appetising as goods in a car boot sale.
- I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on.
- A man, wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye, held out a grimy hand.
Synonyms
shabby, well worn, worn out, worn to shreds, threadbare, tattered, in tatters, in ribbons, in rags, in holes, holey, falling to pieces, falling apart at the seams, ragged, frayed, patched, moth-eaten, faded, seedy, shoddy, sorry, scruffy, dilapidated, crumbling, broken-down, run down, tumbledown, decrepit, deteriorated, on its last legs, having seen better days, time-worn
1. 1.1 Of poor quality.
  质量差的
  the generally tatty output of the current Celtic revival
  由当前凯尔特文化复兴所带来的数量多但总体质量差的作品。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw.
  Tweed, tatty hair-cuts, lots of comb-overs, ruddy cheeks, red fleshy ears and the most enormous blue velour rosettes abound.
  There are, I concede, more deserving causes than ‘hack forced to eat sub-standard food in tatty restaurant at someone else's expense’.
  Synonyms
  substandard, below standard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, mediocre

Derivatives

tattily

adverbˈtatɪliˈtædəli

informal

At first I thought this was merely a good-natured jibe, but apparently this long-haired, tattily dressed young man (Im assuming is aspiring to be a published writer himself) was quite serious.
Example sentencesExamples
- Dr Fox reckons she looks a ‘tad’ out of place, and a ‘tad’ tattily dressed.
- It's rather terrible - not the worst that would emerge from this subgenre, but one that is fairly tattily made on most counts.
- Looking tattily elegant, and hoping I'll be safe from stings, I climb a ladder and examine the swarm.
- just how tattily suburban is it possible to become?

tattiness

nounˈtatɪnəsˈtædinəs

informal

It looked nicely atmospheric, very clean-lined, almost too modern next to the checkerboard tattiness of its neighbors.
Example sentencesExamples
- There is a forthright vitality to the detailing that manages to sidestep judgements of tastefulness or tattiness.
- The second chugs slowly and noisily between Glasgow and Edinburgh with that inevitable air of impending tattiness.
- But much of the 1960s furniture, in its tattiness, looks pretty real.
- Despite their undeniable tattiness, the Confessions films still enjoy an ardent fan following.

Origin

Early 16th century (originally Scots, in the sense 'tangled, matted, shaggy'): apparently ultimately related to Old English tættec 'rag', of Germanic origin; compare with tattered.

tattered from Middle English:
Like tag, tattered is first found relating to the medieval fashion for slashed clothing, in the sense ‘dressed in decoratively slashed or jagged clothing’. Tatter ‘scrap of cloth’ comes from Old Norse tǫtrar ‘rags’. Tatty (early 16th century), originally Scots for ‘tangled, matted, shaggy’, is related, and was shortened to tat ‘worthless articles in the mid 19th century.

Rhymes

batty, bratty, catty, chatty, Cincinnati, Dolcelatte, fatty, flattie, Hattie, natty, patty, ratty, Satie, Scarlatti, scatty, Tati, tattie

Definition of tatty in US English:

tatty

adjectiveˈtadēˈtædi

informal

1Worn and shabby; in poor condition.
〈非正式〉褴褛的；破烂的，破损的
the room was furnished in slightly tatty upholstered furniture
房间里摆着装饰略显破旧的家具。
Example sentencesExamples
- In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti.
- It's all very well saying that a worn and tatty book got that way because it's been well used, and continues to be well used, but they don't look good on my new shelves.
- Even James, the valet, looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf.
- A man, wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye, held out a grimy hand.
- It needs to look at infrastructure and the streets of tatty old ex-boarding houses.
- The action takes place in a tatty, family-run city hotel managed by Helena (Mercedes Morán) who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife.
- These include banning sportswear and tatty jeans, more bouncers, an orderly queuing system, better foyer lighting, a strict ID policy and training bar staff to refuse to serve drunks and eject rowdy customers.
- A tatty, threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll.
- I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on.
- In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted, visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked, complete with ‘rusting pipes and crumbling concrete’.
- To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself.
- When they saw this 70-odd-year-old bloke in tatty green trousers walking towards them they thought it was an old farmer trying to get help for some young pilot who was in trouble.
- He looked dishevelled in old, crumpled clothes, his hair matted and his lips cracking, his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold.
- Phased cuts in educational expenditure as part of Structural Adjustment Programmes left buildings in a tatty, dangerous and unsanitary condition.
- We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again.
- A third guy, who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge, wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper.
- The furniture is tatty and the books looked about as appetising as goods in a car boot sale.
- These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted.
- Bookshop rummaging this afternoon, ended up with the exchange of $4.50 for a dog-eared tatty copy of Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard.
- The condition of the interior would best be described as tatty.
Synonyms
shabby, well worn, worn out, worn to shreds, threadbare, tattered, in tatters, in ribbons, in rags, in holes, holey, falling to pieces, falling apart at the seams, ragged, frayed, patched, moth-eaten, faded, seedy, shoddy, sorry, scruffy, dilapidated, crumbling, broken-down, run down, tumbledown, decrepit, deteriorated, on its last legs, having seen better days, time-worn
1. 1.1 Of poor quality.
  质量差的
  his gap-toothed smile and tatty haircut
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tweed, tatty hair-cuts, lots of comb-overs, ruddy cheeks, red fleshy ears and the most enormous blue velour rosettes abound.
  There are, I concede, more deserving causes than ‘hack forced to eat sub-standard food in tatty restaurant at someone else's expense’.
  The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw.
  Synonyms
  substandard, below standard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, mediocre

Origin

Early 16th century (originally Scots, in the sense ‘tangled, matted, shaggy’): apparently ultimately related to Old English tættec ‘rag’, of Germanic origin; compare with tattered.

单词	tatty
释义	Definition of tatty in English: tatty adjectivetattier, tattiest ˈtatiˈtædi informal 1Worn and shabby; in poor condition. 〈非正式〉褴褛的；破烂的，破损的 tatty upholstered furniture Example sentencesExamples In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti. A tatty, threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll. Bookshop rummaging this afternoon, ended up with the exchange of $4.50 for a dog-eared tatty copy of Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard. The condition of the interior would best be described as tatty. These include banning sportswear and tatty jeans, more bouncers, an orderly queuing system, better foyer lighting, a strict ID policy and training bar staff to refuse to serve drunks and eject rowdy customers. Even James, the valet, looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf. It's all very well saying that a worn and tatty book got that way because it's been well used, and continues to be well used, but they don't look good on my new shelves. The action takes place in a tatty, family-run city hotel managed by Helena (Mercedes Morán) who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife. He looked dishevelled in old, crumpled clothes, his hair matted and his lips cracking, his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold. We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again. These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted. To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself. It needs to look at infrastructure and the streets of tatty old ex-boarding houses. When they saw this 70-odd-year-old bloke in tatty green trousers walking towards them they thought it was an old farmer trying to get help for some young pilot who was in trouble. Phased cuts in educational expenditure as part of Structural Adjustment Programmes left buildings in a tatty, dangerous and unsanitary condition. In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted, visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked, complete with ‘rusting pipes and crumbling concrete’. A third guy, who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge, wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper. The furniture is tatty and the books looked about as appetising as goods in a car boot sale. I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on. A man, wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye, held out a grimy hand. Synonyms shabby, well worn, worn out, worn to shreds, threadbare, tattered, in tatters, in ribbons, in rags, in holes, holey, falling to pieces, falling apart at the seams, ragged, frayed, patched, moth-eaten, faded, seedy, shoddy, sorry, scruffy, dilapidated, crumbling, broken-down, run down, tumbledown, decrepit, deteriorated, on its last legs, having seen better days, time-worn 1.1 Of poor quality. 质量差的 the generally tatty output of the current Celtic revival 由当前凯尔特文化复兴所带来的数量多但总体质量差的作品。 Example sentencesExamples The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw. Tweed, tatty hair-cuts, lots of comb-overs, ruddy cheeks, red fleshy ears and the most enormous blue velour rosettes abound. There are, I concede, more deserving causes than ‘hack forced to eat sub-standard food in tatty restaurant at someone else's expense’. Synonyms substandard, below standard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, mediocre Derivatives tattily adverbˈtatɪliˈtædəli informal At first I thought this was merely a good-natured jibe, but apparently this long-haired, tattily dressed young man (Im assuming is aspiring to be a published writer himself) was quite serious. Example sentencesExamples Dr Fox reckons she looks a ‘tad’ out of place, and a ‘tad’ tattily dressed. It's rather terrible - not the worst that would emerge from this subgenre, but one that is fairly tattily made on most counts. Looking tattily elegant, and hoping I'll be safe from stings, I climb a ladder and examine the swarm. just how tattily suburban is it possible to become? tattiness nounˈtatɪnəsˈtædinəs informal It looked nicely atmospheric, very clean-lined, almost too modern next to the checkerboard tattiness of its neighbors. Example sentencesExamples There is a forthright vitality to the detailing that manages to sidestep judgements of tastefulness or tattiness. The second chugs slowly and noisily between Glasgow and Edinburgh with that inevitable air of impending tattiness. But much of the 1960s furniture, in its tattiness, looks pretty real. Despite their undeniable tattiness, the Confessions films still enjoy an ardent fan following. Origin Early 16th century (originally Scots, in the sense 'tangled, matted, shaggy'): apparently ultimately related to Old English tættec 'rag', of Germanic origin; compare with tattered. tattered from Middle English: Like tag, tattered is first found relating to the medieval fashion for slashed clothing, in the sense ‘dressed in decoratively slashed or jagged clothing’. Tatter ‘scrap of cloth’ comes from Old Norse tǫtrar ‘rags’. Tatty (early 16th century), originally Scots for ‘tangled, matted, shaggy’, is related, and was shortened to tat ‘worthless articles in the mid 19th century. Rhymes batty, bratty, catty, chatty, Cincinnati, Dolcelatte, fatty, flattie, Hattie, natty, patty, ratty, Satie, Scarlatti, scatty, Tati, tattie Definition of tatty in US English: tatty adjectiveˈtadēˈtædi informal 1Worn and shabby; in poor condition. 〈非正式〉褴褛的；破烂的，破损的 the room was furnished in slightly tatty upholstered furniture 房间里摆着装饰略显破旧的家具。 Example sentencesExamples In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti. It's all very well saying that a worn and tatty book got that way because it's been well used, and continues to be well used, but they don't look good on my new shelves. Even James, the valet, looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf. A man, wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye, held out a grimy hand. It needs to look at infrastructure and the streets of tatty old ex-boarding houses. The action takes place in a tatty, family-run city hotel managed by Helena (Mercedes Morán) who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife. These include banning sportswear and tatty jeans, more bouncers, an orderly queuing system, better foyer lighting, a strict ID policy and training bar staff to refuse to serve drunks and eject rowdy customers. A tatty, threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll. I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on. In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted, visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked, complete with ‘rusting pipes and crumbling concrete’. To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself. When they saw this 70-odd-year-old bloke in tatty green trousers walking towards them they thought it was an old farmer trying to get help for some young pilot who was in trouble. He looked dishevelled in old, crumpled clothes, his hair matted and his lips cracking, his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold. Phased cuts in educational expenditure as part of Structural Adjustment Programmes left buildings in a tatty, dangerous and unsanitary condition. We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again. A third guy, who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge, wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper. The furniture is tatty and the books looked about as appetising as goods in a car boot sale. These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted. Bookshop rummaging this afternoon, ended up with the exchange of $4.50 for a dog-eared tatty copy of Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard. The condition of the interior would best be described as tatty. Synonyms shabby, well worn, worn out, worn to shreds, threadbare, tattered, in tatters, in ribbons, in rags, in holes, holey, falling to pieces, falling apart at the seams, ragged, frayed, patched, moth-eaten, faded, seedy, shoddy, sorry, scruffy, dilapidated, crumbling, broken-down, run down, tumbledown, decrepit, deteriorated, on its last legs, having seen better days, time-worn 1.1 Of poor quality. 质量差的 his gap-toothed smile and tatty haircut Example sentencesExamples Tweed, tatty hair-cuts, lots of comb-overs, ruddy cheeks, red fleshy ears and the most enormous blue velour rosettes abound. There are, I concede, more deserving causes than ‘hack forced to eat sub-standard food in tatty restaurant at someone else's expense’. The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw. Synonyms substandard, below standard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, mediocre Origin Early 16th century (originally Scots, in the sense ‘tangled, matted, shaggy’): apparently ultimately related to Old English tættec ‘rag’, of Germanic origin; compare with tattered.
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