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Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : tat-er |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæt ər |
Definition of tatter
Origin :- mid-14c., "clad in slashed garments," from Old Norse toturr "rag," cognate with Old English tættec, tætteca "rag, tatter," Low German tater "tatter." The noun is attested from c.1400.
- As in rent : noun opening, split
- As in shred : noun tiny piece
- As in tear : noun rip, cut
- As in clothing : noun attire
- As in rag : noun cloth
- As in rag : noun annoy
- As in rags : noun clothes
- As in clothes/clothing : noun personal attire
- As in duds : noun clothes
- As in shred : verb cut into ribbons
- As in fray : verb shred, come apart
- It had gone; no trace was left, not a tatter of cloth, not a spot of blood, nothing.
- Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Why may you not have saved that tatter of the old gown twice seven years, then?
- Extract from : « Donald and Dorothy » by Mary Mapes Dodge
- You go round by Tatter Brook, says he, an climb the hill from behind.
- Extract from : « Every Man for Himself » by Norman Duncan
- Now quite unexpectedly we saw the "tatter of scarlet" from a new angle.
- Extract from : « A Tatter of Scarlet » by S. R. Crockett
- Was a tatter't boggart, in a field, an' that they left behind.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 September 23, 1893 » by Various
- But, search as one will, not a crust or a tatter turns up in her history!
- Extract from : « Stars of the Opera » by Mabel Wagnalls
- In the little brass bowl lay a blood-stained fragment of grayish hair attached to a tatter of skin.
- Extract from : « The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu » by Sax Rohmer
- She wished to discover what remnant, tatter or shred of her early faith still clung about her.
- Extract from : « Evelyn Innes » by George Moore
- Whether it was the red flag that floated at the top or the thing itself he sought to tatter is uncertain.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Kimberley » by T. Phelan
- Only here and there toward its lower rim a tatter in it revealed the giant's rugged brown muscle of volcanic rock.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 » by Various
Synonyms for tatter
- accouterment
- apparel
- array
- atom
- banter
- become ragged
- become threadbare
- bit
- breach
- break
- cantlet
- caparison
- chafe
- chink
- civvies
- cleavage
- clothes
- costume
- covering
- crack
- crumb
- cut
- damage
- discord
- dishrag
- dissension
- division
- drag
- drapery
- dress
- duds
- dustcloth
- ensemble
- equipment
- erode
- faction
- feathers
- finery
- fissure
- flaw
- flitter
- fracture
- fragment
- fray
- frazzle
- fret
- frippery
- frock
- full feather
- garb
- garments
- gash
- gear
- get-up
- glad rags
- grain
- habiliment
- habit
- hand-me-downs
- harass
- hole
- imperfection
- iota
- jive
- joke
- josh
- jot
- kid
- laceration
- livery
- make ragged
- mock
- modicum
- mufti
- mutilation
- needle
- ounce
- outfit
- overclothes
- panoply
- part
- particle
- patch
- perforation
- rag
- rags
- raiment
- ravel
- ray
- razz
- reduce
- regalia
- remnant
- rent
- rib
- ribbon
- rift
- rigging
- rip
- rub
- run
- rupture
- sack
- schism
- scintilla
- scold
- scrap
- scraps
- scratch
- shadow
- shave
- shred
- slash
- slit
- sliver
- smidgen
- snippet
- speck
- split
- sportswear
- stitch
- strip
- Sunday best
- tailleur
- tatter
- tatters
- tear
- tease
- things
- threads
- tog
- toggery
- togs
- tout ensemble
- trace
- trappings
- trousseau
- underclothes
- unravel
- vestment
- vesture
- vines
- wardrobe
- wear
- wear away
- wear thin
- weeds
- whit
- wiper
- zoot suit
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