tatty
Plural: tatties
Adjective Satellite
- showing signs of wear and tear
- "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
- tastelessly showy
Noun
- A potato.
- 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.
Adj
- Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn
Adjective
- Shabby, worn, or unkempt in appearance.
Examples
- My opening rack looked tatty, full of low-value vowels and few consonants.
- The tramp wore a tatty old overcoat.
Origin / Etymology
Clipping of potato.
Synonyms
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tacky, tawdry, trashy, spud, tater
Scrabble Score: 8
tatty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtatty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tatty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary