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tatty
1[ tat-ee ]
adjective
- cheap 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.
tatty
2[ tat-ee ]
noun
- (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.
tatty
/ ˈ³Ùæ³Ùɪ /
adjective
- worn out, shabby, tawdry, or unkempt
Derived Forms
- ˈ³Ù²¹³Ù³Ù¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
- ˈ³Ù²¹³Ù³Ù¾±±ô²â, adverb
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ù²¹³Ùt¾±Â·±ô²â adverb
- ³Ù²¹³Ùt¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of tatty2
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of tatty1
Example Sentences
As soon as Williams ascends to a new height of fame, it begins to look tatty.
It has posted videos showing bedraggled troops in tatty uniforms being led away handcuffed with cable ties, and huge caches of captured weapons and ammunition.
Perhaps irony, like water for the swimming pool, is a resource that dries up seasonally in these parts, leaving only a dust bowl of surly resentment and some tatty deckchairs behind.
Look closely, and the beggar’s left hand has disappeared, tucked inside the placket of his tatty jacket.
The gloomy, dark room had bare belongings: a rope and wood cot, a steel vessel to store grains, a clay stove sunk in the ground and a tatty clothes line.
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