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▪ I. tat, n.1 slang.|tæt|
Also tatt.
[Origin unascertained.]
1. a. pl. tats: Dice; esp. false or loaded dice. b. Comb. as tat-box, a dice-box; tat-monger, a sharper who uses false dice. See also tatsman.
1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia i, H... Pox o' the Tatts for me! I believe they put the Doctor upon me. B. Tatts and Doctor! what's that? S. The tools of Sharpers, false dice. Ibid., He was but a Sharper, a tat-monger. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Tatts, false Dice. a1809J. Palmer Like Master (1811) I. xv. 215 He ransacks every house in St. James's parish, where the tats are at work, to punish those for what he, himself, practised. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Tatt-box, a dice-box. 1887Henley Villon's Straight Tip ii, Rattle the tats, or mark the spot.
2. pl. tats, tatts. Teeth; now usu. with ref. to a set of false teeth. slang (chiefly Austral.).
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 49 Tats, teeth. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 119/2 Tats, teeth. 1962Coast to Coast 1961–62 131 He'd lost his ‘tatts’ in a brawl in Townsville the night before we left Australia. 1976Express (Austral.) 3 Nov. 2/3 Talking of ‘tats’ a dental standards official said false teeth for animals are nothing new.
▪ II. tat, tatt, n.3 Anglo-Ind.
Short for tatty n.
1812M. Graham Jrnl. Resid. India 125 (Y.) During the hot winds tats (a kind of mat), made of the root of the koosa grass,..are placed against the doors and windows. 1837Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 77, I have a tatt, or thick mat, at my window, which excludes the sun, and men sit outside pouring water on it all day, so that the wind..blows always cooled through the water.
▪ III. tat, tatt, n.4 Anglo-Ind.
Short for tattoo n.3, a native pony of India.
c1840in Parker Bole Ponjis (1851) II. 215 With its bright brass patent axles, and its little hog maned tatts. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 109 The pony (familiarly called tat—corruption of the native name for the small animal, tattoo). 1891Blackw. Mag. May 684 Cantering his tat up to the door.
▪ IV. tat, n.5 slang.
Also tatt.
[Origin uncertain: cf. OE. tættec a rag, and tatty a.1]
a. A rag; also (in sing.), poorly made or tasteless clothes. Hence, a shabby person, a slut.
1839[see posh n.2 1]. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 424/2 I'll tell you about the tat (rag) gatherers; buying rags they call it. 1882Sydney Slang Dict. 9/2 The paper makers get the tats. 1936N. Coward To-Night at 8.30 I. 93 You should have seen the company: a couple of old tats got up as Elizabethan pages. 1947N. Marsh Final Curtain iv. 53 Do they think it's any catch living in a mausoleum with a couple of old tats? 1972D. Goddard Blimey! (1974) iv. 43 King's Road beckons the well-heeled traveller into a cloud-cuckoo land of high-priced tat and gear. 1977M. Drabble Ice Age ii. 212 She was dressed..in a horrible collection of tat—a long shiny maroon skirt, a baggy flowered blouse, a grey cardigan, and a green cardigan on top of that.
b. Rubbish, junk, worthless goods. Also transf. and fig.
1951W. Sansom Face of Innocence iv. 55 He was talking of his business in Georgian and early Victorian objets d'oeil. He called it tat. 1958A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot ii. 151 It was filled..with a jumble of pleasing, valuable antique furniture and hideous, worthless bric-a-brac... ‘I like tatt,’ he had said. 1967N. Marsh Death at Dolphin ii. 40 A small shop in Walton Street where they sold what he described as: ‘Very superior tatt. Jacobean purses, stomachers and the odd codpiece.’ 1970‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird iv. 52 Are they selling tat medals as well? 1971D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy iii. 38 Oh no! Not that load of old tat. We threw it out at afternoon [news] conference. 1976New Musical Express 12 Feb. 26/3 That long deleted album..sounds like a heap of prissy irrelevant whimsical lysergic tat with Disney lyrics. 1981Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Sept. 1060/1 New ways of getting the johns to spend their money on previously unsellable old tat.
▪ V. tat, n.6
Also tatt, (erron.) taut, tawt.
[Origin obscure: cf. tatty a.1]
(See quot. 1887.)
1887Jamieson Suppl., Tat, taut, tawt, a tangle, matted tuft or lock of wool or hair. 1922Joyce Ulysses 423 A slut combs out the tatts from the hair of a scrofulous child. 1968Saturday Night Mar. 34/3 The hair was full of tats so it was easy to find places to stick the flowers.
▪ VI. tat, n.7
in phr. tit for tat: see tit.
▪ VII. tat, v.1
[Origin uncertain: ? echoic; cf. tap, pat.]
trans. a. To touch lightly, pat, tap. dial. †b. A euphemism for To flog. Obs. slang.
1607Dekker & Webster Northw. Ho ii. i, Come tit me, come tat me, come throw a kiss at me. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Tat, to flog, or scourge. 1847–78Halliwell, Tat... (3) To touch gently. Hants.
▪ VIII. tat, v.2
Also tatt.
[Origin unknown: cf. tatting n.]
a. intr. To do tatting.
b. trans. To make by tatting.
[1842: see tatting n.] 1882Mrs. Alexander in Belgravia July 104 Winnie produced her tatting, and applied herself to it... At the mention of his mother Laura involuntarily clasped her hands, and Winnie ceased to tatt. 1905E. Glyn Viciss. Evangeline 123 They knitted ties and crocheted comforters, and one even tatted.
▪ IX. tat, v.3 slang.
[f. tat n.5]
intr. To gather rags.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 417/1 He goes tatting and billy-hunting in the country (gathering rags and buying old metal). 1910Nottingham Guardian 2 June, The prisoner..told the police that he came in possession of the lead when he went round ‘tatting’.
▪ X. tat, v.4 Sc. and north. dial.
[Goes with tat n.6]
trans. and intr. To tangle, or make tangled or matted: see taut v.
1829Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Tat, to mat, to entangle. 1887in Jamieson Suppl. 1894Northumb. Gloss., Tat, to mat together. |