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单词 tatty
释义 I. tatty, n. East Ind.|ˈtætɪ|
Also tattie, tattee, tatti.
[a. Hindī ṭaṭṭī.]
A screen or mat, usually made of the roots of the fragrant cuscus grass, which is placed in a frame so as to fill up the opening of a door or window, and kept wet, in order to cool and freshen the air of a room. Abbreviated tat (n.3).
1792Williams in Phil. Trans. LXXXIII. 131 Tatties..are affixed to the door or window frames, and kept constantly sprinkled with water.1809Broughton Lett. Mahratta Camp x. (1892) 83 The hot winds have set in, and we are obliged to make use of tattees, a kind of screens made of the roots of a coarse grass called Kus.1811H. Martyn in Mem. iii. (1825) 342, I got a tattie made of the branches of the date tree, and a Persian peasant to water it.1901Indian Standard 16 Mar. 1/1 Those who..have neither Khas Tatties nor thermantidotes will pant..for want of fresh air.
attrib.1848tr. Hoffmeister's Trav. Ceylon, etc. vii. 277 [Rooms with] but one external entrance, and that closed up by means of a tatty-frame.
Hence tattied |ˈtætɪd| a., furnished with a tatty or tatties.
1894Blackw. Mag. Sept. 387/2 The Anglo-Indian is a close prisoner within the kus-kus tattied walls.
II. tatty, a.1 Sc.|ˈtatɪ|
Also 6 taty, tawty, tattie, 9 tawtie, tautie.
[app. related in form and sense to OE. tættec a rag, a tatter; cf. also tat n.4, which is not evidenced so early, and may be a back-formation.]
Of hair, tangled, matted; of an animal or skin, shaggy with matted hair.
1513Douglas æneis vii. xii. 63 A felloun bustuus and gret lyoun skyn, Terrible and rouch, wyth taty lokyrand haris.1533Bellenden Livy ii. xi. (S.T.S.) I. 166 The hare of his berde was lang and taty [v.r. tawty].1818Scott Rob Roy xxxiv, Wha wad hae thought there had been as muckle sense in his tatty pow.1834Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. xviii. 428 Old pollarded..lime trees standing there like giants in tawtie wigs (for the new boughs are still young).
III. tatty, a.2 colloq.|ˈtætɪ|
[f. tat n.5 + -y1.]
1. Of a person, an animal: untidy, disreputable, ‘scruffy’. Cf. tatty a.1
1933N. Coward Design for Living ii. iii. 67 Going round in a troupe, with all those tatty old girls.1951J. Cannan And All I Learned x. 165 You mustn't call Brownie a tatty old trout.1967N. Freeling Strike Out 38 I've seen the painter..rather a tatty chappy by their standards.1978Lancashire Life Apr. 36/2 A widower living with his one son and a tatty collie dog, he had been a soldier for many years.
2. Of clothes, decoration, etc.: shabby, tawdry, cheap.
1940N. Mitford Pigeon Pie vii. 117 The ‘King's’ tatty striped wall-papers.1951‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow vii. 84 Ivan pushed up his tatty fur hat.1959H. R. F. Keating Death & Visiting Firemen xv. 195 You're a man, I can see that, in spite of your tatty old clothes.1963Times 4 June 14/2 Nineteenth-century-style songs, played by a jaunty orchestra before tatty red-plush curtains and even tattier scenery, accompany the high jinks.1976Sunday Post (Glasgow) 26 Dec. 29/4 It [sc. the car] was a tatty green, so a pal and I painted it navy blue.
3. Of a place or a building: badly cared for, neglected, run down.
1956L. McIntosh Oxford Folly iv. 53 This is Oxford's latest coffee-bar... The others are getting so tatty.1966Listener 12 May 686/1 Some distance from the edge of the Falls a sizeable crack has opened up... Neither the Americans nor the Canadians can afford to have Niagara looking so tatty.1978L. Heren Growing up on The Times iii. 63 The car drove through the rather tatty outskirts of Tel Aviv.
4. transf. In other miscellaneous uses.
1957Listener 19 Dec. 1026/1 Look what we did to that tatty second act.1959Economist 28 Mar. 1153/2 The Prime Minister's reply looks like a foretaste of the tattier tactics that will be used by the less inhibited Tories in the election.1965New Statesman 9 Apr. 585/2 The entire vision's too enormous for accommodation within the tatty ingenuities of the stage.1975in R. Crossman Diaries I. 376 This was a somewhat tatty account of Labour's first year in Government, prepared in Transport House as a diatribe against the Tories.
Hence ˈtattily adv.; ˈtattiness.
1952A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. v. 93 He rejected the ‘tattiness’ of dead mullion and withered sycamore berries.1957Observer 29 Sept. 12/1 The keynote of these tattily exotic revues is imitation.1959S. Gibbons Pink Front Door ix. 118 I've got you the rooms. Four of them, furnished rather tattily.1973J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 8 The impression of tarted up tattiness.1980Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Oct. 1118/5 The novel is firmly set in the very recent past..and rock music, fashion, the death of Elvis, the tattiness of London are described in detail.
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