tatty
IPA: tˈæti
noun
- (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.
adjective
- Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn
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Examples of "tatty" in Sentences
- My daddy blanket's cheap and tatty.
- I want to throw this tatty carpet away.
- The cover which has been scanned is a bit tatty.
- I've still got it but it's getting a bit tatty now.
- He has seen old tattoos that look, well, a bit tatty.
- Shops became empty and others appeared tatty or downmarket.
- Maybe the old Bose drivers did look rather sad, cheap and tatty.
- I believe, all that time ago, you thought it sounded pretty tatty.
- Edwardian terraced housing and tatty old workshops aren't really landmarks.
- I had it in a rather tatty collection of scifi stories when I was a youngster.
- 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.
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