tatty

IPA: tˈæti

(Scotland, Northern England, Tyneside) A potato.
(India) A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.
A kind of reggae dance move.

Examples of "tatty" in Sentences

The effect is that of a slightly withered, tatty, Miss Havisham-esque hold-all.
Strictly Come Dancing: Viewers outraged by tiny and 'tatty' dresses that are cheapening the show
Of course - everybody knows it, but in these days of 'tatty' talent shows, he rarely gets a mention.
It shrugged its attackers off, determined to reach some tatty bramble flowers with an appetite as fierce as the buzzard's.
Meanwhile a tatty but unmolested car is often worth far more than an identical model that has been insensitively or inaccurately restored.
What joy that tatty rag brings to an otherwise dull world and a peep into the minds of the distinctly vague and those living in a parallel universe.
I can't quite describe the sensation of opening an envelope to find the tatty, coffee-stained old passport pictures of Education Minister Jane the Hutt.
And ever since OK! magazine announced that it was to run a warts-and-all account of Britney Spears' photo shoot meltdown, the world has been on the edge of its seat in anticipation of today's OK! magazine, because it had to – it just had to – have a picture of Britney Spears stumbling around out of her mind like some kind of tatty old shit-and-grease-covered redneck zombie.