tatter
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 6
Definition of tatter
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.
“You can’t – you shan’t – you don’t – you won’t – you thing of rag and tatter, O!”
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noun
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A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.
“You can’t – you shan’t – you don’t – you won’t – you thing of rag and tatter, O!”
- A person engaged in tatting.
verb
- (transitive)To destroy an article of clothing etc. by shredding.
- (intransitive)To fall into tatters.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English tater, from Old Norse tǫturr, from Proto-Germanic *tat(t)uraz (“tuft, patch”). Cognate with Icelandic tötur (“rag, tatter”).
Words you can make from tatter
33 playable · top: TATER (5 pts)
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