Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
tatty .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
tatty . -potato
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Examples
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Digging with gusto into the full Scottish breakfast of eggs, bacon, black pudding, white pudding, tattie scones and toast with homemade whisky marmalade, Rob greeted his father with a full mouth, a grunt and a gesture toward the frying pan.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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The careful tailoring only made her look queerly skinny, not so much a boy as some tattie bogle set out in old clothes to scare the crows.
LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009
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The careful tailoring only made her look queerly skinny, not so much a boy as some tattie bogle set out in old clothes to scare the crows.
LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009
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There's a reason why I like tattie scones so much...
Get off yer bike 2007
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Wi 'some Crawford's Tartan Shortbread an' some tattie scones as weel
Leo McGuire's Song 1998
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Not a croft, not a tattie-plot, not a cow or a sheep or a pig or a goat!
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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I wudna winder to see him some day wi 'Donal' yokit i 'the tattie-cairt wi' his heid ower the fore-end o't, an 'the hurdles o' him whaur his heid shud be.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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His e'en were starin 'fair afore him; he wudna kent his ain tattie cairt, I believe, he was that muckle taen up wi' his merchin '.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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I'll swag, if you tell him he's only an echteent pairt o 'the Toon Cooncil, he'll be dealin' wi 'anither tattie man gin neist mornin'.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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Meg had tell'd him Sandy was a tattie merchant, an 'he'd been thinkin' Sandy had a big wey o 'doin', an 'sell'd tatties in shiploads an' so on.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
garyth123 commented on the word tattie
a potato
December 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word tattie
Whatever the example means, it sounds great.
November 26, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word tattie
tatty
March 15, 2011