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plural tatties
(Scotland, Northern England, Tyneside) A potato. quotations examples
I'm buying fucking tatties.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 245
comparative tattier, superlative tattiest
Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn quotations examples
I wish you would have smiled in the bakeryOr sat on a tatty setteeAt a mutual friend's gathering
2007, Arctic Monkeys, “The Bakery”, in Fluorescent Adolescent
I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67
(India) A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters. quotations examples
[…] tatties are placed in front of the verandahs to keep out the rains during the monsoon; […]
1855, Pharoah and Co, A Gazetteer of Southern India, page 553
A kind of reggae dance move. examples