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Definitions: Tatterdemalion |
TatterdemalionAdjective1. Worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince". 2. In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack". Noun1. A dirty shabbily clothed urchin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tatterdemalion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
Etymology: Tatterdemalion \Tat`ter*de*mal"ion\, noun. [Tatter Old French desmaillier to break the meshes of, to tear: compare to Old French expression maillon long clothes, swadding clothes, French maillot. See Tatter, and Mail armor.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Slang in 1811 | TATTERDEMALION. A ragged fellow, whose clothes hang all in tatters. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: TatterdemalionSynonyms: bedraggled (adj), broken-down (adj), dilapidated (adj), ramshackle (adj), tattered (adj), tumble-down (adj), unsound (adj), ragamuffin (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade; gossoon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tatterdemalion |
| English words defined with "tatterdemalion": tattered. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "tatterdemalion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i leckosur (frumpish, hole-in-the-wall, ragged, shabby, tattered). (various references) | |
Arabic | شخص رث الملابس (threader). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | парцалан (ragamuffin), дрипльо (clothes-man, ragamuffin, tatters). (various references) | |
Czech | rozedranec. (various references) | |
French | épouvantail. (various references) | |
Greek | κουρελήσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | toprongyos ember. (various references) | |
Manx | fritlag dy 'er. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atterdemaliontay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maltrapilho (ragamuffin, rat, ratty, shabby, shake-rag, tattered, threadbare), farroupilha (ragamuffin, shake-rag). (various references) | |
Romanian | jerpelit (out at elbows, ragamuffin, time worn), janghinos (ragamuffin, scabbed), calic (beggar, cadger, cripple, glutton, greedy, pauper, ragamuffin, ragged, skinflint). (various references) | |
Russian | оборванец (ragamuffin, ragged fellow, shake-rag). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dronja. (various references) | |
Thai | คนที่ใส่ชุ"ผ้าขี้ริ้ว. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người ăn mặc rách rưới. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tatterdemalion": tatterdemalions. (additional references) | |
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"Tatterdemalion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: taterdemalion, tatterdemailion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tatterdemalion" (pronounced 'Tat`ter*de*mal"ion'): Adfluxion, Affixion, Affluxion, Annexion, Antecommunion, Anteflexion, Anthelion, Aphelion, Brunion, Circumflexion, Commixion, Communion, Complexion, Connexion, Crucifixion, Deflexion, Defluxion, Discomplexion, Disfashion, Disopinion, Disunion, Dominion, Effluxion, Excommunion, Fanion, flexion, fluxion, Franion, Gorgoneion, Implexion, inflexion, Influxion, Innixion, intercommunion, Mandilion, Menaion, Misfashion, Misopinion, Noncommunion, Nonunion, Onion, Parhelion, Pommelion, Postcomminion, Postilion, Prefixion, Preopinion, Pumpion, refashion, retroflexion, reunion, Self-communion, Self-opinion, Selion, Suffixion, Transexion, Transfixion, Union, Unpinion, Virmilion, Wanion. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-t-t" | |
-3 letters: ameliorated, detrimental, dilatometer, endometrial. | |
-4 letters: alteration, alternated, ameliorate, antimatter, deaeration, delaminate, delineator, derailment, dilettante, endometria, entodermal, intermodal, littermate, maltreated, marionette, meliorated, orientated, reanimated, reattained, retaliated, terminated. | |
-5 letters: alienated, alienator, alimented, aliterate, almandite, alternate, altimeter, antidotal, attainder, attainted, dealation, deaminate, demential, detriment, diametral, ealdorman, ealdormen, etiolated, intermale, intreated, laminated, laminator, letterman, madrilene, maladroit, marinated, meditator, meliorate, montadale, natrolite, orientate, rationale, reanimate, remittent, retaliate, tailender, tantalite, terminate, tiltmeter, toadeater, toenailed, tolerated, tormented, tormentil, trainload, treatment, trematode, tremolite. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tatterdemalions. | |
+5 letters: departmentalization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 74 74 65 72 64 65 6D 61 6C 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- - - . .-. -.. . -- .- .-.. .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100100 01100101 01101101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a t t e r d e m a l i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0074 0074 0065 0072 0064 0065 006D 0061 006C 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5467868671847071796778758180 |
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