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tatterdemalion, -demallion|ˌtætədɪˈmeɪlɪən, -ˈmælɪən|
Forms: α. 7–9 tatterdemallion, (7 tatter-, totter-de-mallion, -timallion). β. 7–9 tatterdemalion, (7 tatter-, totter-demalian, -dimalian, -demalean, 8 -demelon).
[f. tatter n.1, or more prob. tattered a., with a factitious element suggesting an ethnic or descriptive derivative. The earlier pronunciation rimes with battalion, Italian, stallion, as shown by the frequent doubling of l.]
A person in tattered clothing; a ragged or beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
α1611B. Jonson Introd. Verses in Coryat's Crudities, This Horse pictur'd showes that our Tatter-de-mallian Did ride the French Hackneyes and lye with th' Italian. a1626Middleton Mayor of Queenb. v. i, He's not so wise as he ought to be, to let such tatterdemallions get the upper hand of him. 1630Capt. Smith Trav. & Adv. xvi. 30 Yet those tattertimallions [Tartars] will have two or three horses, some foure, or five. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 37 Great numbers of poore French tatterdimallians, being as it were the Scumme of the Countrey. 1693Oxford-Act 2 Loyal Oxford..Soon form'd in Squadrons and Battalions To Swinge the Duke's Tatterdemalions. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Tatter-de-mallion, a ragged, tatter'd Begger,..having better Cloths at Home. 1879Scribner's Mag. XIX. 296/1 It is rare to see a tatterdemallion in Paris.
β1608Dekker Belman Lond. (1640) 3 Rector Chory (the Captain of the Tatterdemalions). 1622Dekker Virg. Mart. iii. i, Among so many millions of people, should thou and I onely be miserable totterdemalions? 1637Heywood Roy. King ii. vii, A Tatterdemalean, that stayes to sit at the Ordinary to day. 1650Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples i. 7 A few poore Tatterdimalians had made all that noise. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 24 May, Mrs. Bramble.. said, she had never seen such a filthy tatterdemalion. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf-t. xi. 108 A group of young tatterdemalions playing pitch-and-toss.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1614J. Cooke Greene's Tu Quoque K j b, Puh, the Italian fashion? the tatterd-de-malian fashion hee meanes. 1651Biggs New Disp. §53 That Tatterdemalion Linostema of Peripatetical and Galenical predicaments. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iv. iii, Saint-Antoine..reinforced by the unknown Tatterdemalion Figures, with their enthusiast complexion and large sticks. 1855F. Chamier My Travels II. vi. 85 The most beggarly remnants of tatterdemalion garments. 1893Spectator 25 Nov. 738/1 These tatterdemalion scraps and fragments of political discontent.
Hence (nonce-wds.) ˌtatterdeˈmalionism, the style or practice of a tatterdemalion; ˌtatterdeˈmalionry, the body of tatterdemalions.
1840Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 491 Hungarian, Croatian, and Wallachian tatterdemalionry. 1884Dumbarton, Vale of Leven, etc. 27 The tatterdemalionism with which we usually associate the abodes of such. 1887Blackw. Mag. CXLI. 821 His coat was out at both elbows... It was..a kind of defiant tatterdemalionism that the Colonel liked to hug. |