tautyadj.

Brit.

/ˈtɔːti/, U.S.

/ˈtɔdi/,

/ˈtɑdi/, Scottish English

/ˈtɔtɪ/, Irish English

/ˈtɒːti/

Forms: Scottish pre-1700 1800s tawty, 1700s tauty, 1800s tautie, 1800s– tawtie; Irish English (northern) 1900s– tautie.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: tatty adj.¹

Etymology: Variant of tatty adj.¹ Compare tauted adj.

Scottish and Irish English (northern).

= tatty adj.¹ Cf. slightly earlier tauted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > tangled

tattered1340

unkempt?a1439

dishevelc1450

tatty1513

tautyc1560

feltered1567

dishevelled1582

elf-locked1647

tatted1716

tauted1786

matty-haired1824

tangle-haired1861

draggle-haired1865

tangle-headed1884

waulked1894

natty1974

c1560 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 166 [The hare of his berde was lang and] tawty.

1790 A. Tait Poems & Songs 88 If down their back there be a rand Of tauty hair.

1831 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 539 This jackass must have had his long ears pulled, and his tawty hide knouted.

1834 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. xviii. 428 Old pollarded..lime trees standing there like giants in tawtie wigs (for the new boughs are still young).

1896 S. R. Crockett Cleg Kelly v. 41 I'll smash yer tawtie heid!

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 349/2 Tatty, tautie, (of hair) tangled, matted; unkempt, tousled.

2006 D. Purves Draiglin Hogney (SCOTS) His hair wes aw tawtie.

Compounds

Parasynthetic, esp. in tauty-headed.

ΚΠ

1801 ‘Berwickshire Sandie’ Poems 106 Tautie-hippit hogs nibblin' the heather.

1831 T. Carlyle Let. 10 Nov. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1977) VI. 42 He is a long thin tawtie-headed man.

1930 in Sc. National Dict. (1974) at Taut n. She wad be a bonnie enough lass if she wuzna sae tawtie-headed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tauty
释义	tautyadj. Brit. /ˈtɔːti/, U.S. /ˈtɔdi/, /ˈtɑdi/, Scottish English /ˈtɔtɪ/, Irish English /ˈtɒːti/ Forms: Scottish pre-1700 1800s tawty, 1700s tauty, 1800s tautie, 1800s– tawtie; Irish English (northern) 1900s– tautie. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: tatty adj.¹ Etymology: Variant of tatty adj.¹ Compare tauted adj. Scottish and Irish English (northern). = tatty adj.¹ Cf. slightly earlier tauted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > tangled tattered1340 unkempt?a1439 dishevelc1450 tatty1513 tautyc1560 feltered1567 dishevelled1582 elf-locked1647 tatted1716 tauted1786 matty-haired1824 tangle-haired1861 draggle-haired1865 tangle-headed1884 waulked1894 natty1974 c1560 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 166 [The hare of his berde was lang and] tawty. 1790 A. Tait Poems & Songs 88 If down their back there be a rand Of tauty hair. 1831 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 539 This jackass must have had his long ears pulled, and his tawty hide knouted. 1834 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. xviii. 428 Old pollarded..lime trees standing there like giants in tawtie wigs (for the new boughs are still young). 1896 S. R. Crockett Cleg Kelly v. 41 I'll smash yer tawtie heid! 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 349/2 Tatty, tautie, (of hair) tangled, matted; unkempt, tousled. 2006 D. Purves Draiglin Hogney (SCOTS) His hair wes aw tawtie. Compounds Parasynthetic, esp. in tauty-headed. ΚΠ 1801 ‘Berwickshire Sandie’ Poems 106 Tautie-hippit hogs nibblin' the heather. 1831 T. Carlyle Let. 10 Nov. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1977) VI. 42 He is a long thin tawtie-headed man. 1930 in Sc. National Dict. (1974) at Taut n. She wad be a bonnie enough lass if she wuzna sae tawtie-headed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1560
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