Tatty

Definition: Tatty

Tatty

Adjective

1. Showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains".

2. Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments".

Note: Tatty \Tat"ty\, noun; plural Tatties. [Hind. [.t]a[.t][.t][imac].]. (references)

Synonyms: Tatty

Synonyms: brassy (adj), cheap (adj), flash (adj), flashy (adj), garish (adj), gaudy (adj), gimcrack (adj), loud (adj), meretricious (adj), moth-eaten (adj), ratty (adj), shabby (adj), tacky (adj), tawdry (adj), trashy (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Tatty

English words defined with "tatty": moth-eaten ♦ ratty ♦ shabby. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Let me see; red hair, vacant expressions, tatty second-hand books, you must be the Weasleys (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; writing credit: Steven Kloves)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Bon-bons and roses for Dolly ; The Tatty Hollow story : two plays (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Tatty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.20% of the time. "Tatty" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	94.2%	65	41,645
Noun (singular)	5.8%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	69	N/A

Expression using "tatty": tatty little shop. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "tatty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏في حالة رديئة, ‏مكسر, ‏ذابل (blasted, dry, passe, sear, sere, shrivelled, staleness, withered, wizened). (various references)

Bulgarian		раздърпан (dishevelled, tacky), безвкусно облечен, посредствен (indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, middling, moderate, ordinary, potty, run of the mill, second rate, tame, undistinguished), дрипав (ragged, ratty, shabby, tattered). (various references)

French		fatigué, en mauvais état, défraîchi, écorné, écaillé. (various references)

German		gammelig (ancient, decrepit, old). (various references)

Greek		τριμμένος, τσαλακωμένοσ (mussy, rumply). (various references)

Hungarian		topis (down at the heel, raggedy-ass, raunchy, tacky). (various references)

Pig Latin		attytay.(various references)

Spanish		raído (bare, frayed, fret, seedy, shabby, tacky, threadbare), poco elegante (inelegant), en mal estado (ill-conditioned), desaseado (scraggly, scruff, slatternly, sleazily, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy, uncared for, untidy). (various references)

Thai		หยาบ (broad, hackly, indelicate, raw, roughen, scabrous). (various references)

Turkish		yırtık pırtık (ragged, shabby, tacky, tattered, tattered and torn), serinlemek için asılan ıslak hasır, eski püskü (moth-eaten, shabby, threadbare, worn out). (various references)

Ukrainian		обірваний (ragged, tattered), жалюгідний (abject, beggarly, caitiff, contemptible, deplorable, forlorn, impoverished, lamentable, mean, miserable, parsimonious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, queachy, snide, sorry, woeful, woesome, wretched). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Tatty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atty, tacty, taddy, tanty, tarty, tatay, tatb, tati, tattie, tatto, tatts, taty, Titiyo, titteya, Tittie, tity, Tityo, Tottey, totti, ttt, tty, tuty, Tytti. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tatty" (pronounced ta"tē)
3	-a" t ē	Batty, catty, chatty, fatty, natty, Pattie, Patty, ratty.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-t-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: att, tat.
	-3 letters: at, ay, ta, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-t-t-t-y"
	+2 letters: tattily.
	+3 letters: totality.
	+4 letters: statocyst, statutory, tactility, yottabyte, zettabyte.
	+5 letters: cytostatic, statocysts, teetotally, yottabytes, zettabytes.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
tatty teddy	194
tatty	38
bear tatty	24
bear tatty teddy	13
tatty teddies	11
picture tatty teddy	9
bear picture tatty	6
tatty teddy wallpaper	4
devine tatty	4
graphic tatty teddy	4
miranda tatty teddy	3
tatty ted	3
bear tatty wallpaper	3
tatty teddys	3
beer tatty	3
pic tatty teddy	2
psp tatty tube	2
tatty tube	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Tatty

Definition: Tatty

Tatty

Adjective

Synonyms: Tatty

Crosswords: Tatty

Modern Usage: Tatty

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Tatty

Books

Usage Frequency: Tatty

Expression: Tatty

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tatty

Modern Translation: Tatty

Arabic

Bulgarian

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Pig Latin

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Thai

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Misspellings: Tatty

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Tatty"

Anagrams: Tatty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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