tatter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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!
  2. A person engaged in tatting.
动词 v.
  1. To destroy an article of clothing etc. by shredding. transitive
  2. To fall into tatters. intransitive

词形变化

tatters plural tatters present,singular,third-person tattering participle,present tattered participle,past tattered past tatters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
fortatter tatterer tattery tatty

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tater, from Old Norse tǫturr, from Proto-Germanic *tat(t)uraz (“tuft, patch”). Cognate with Icelandic tötur (“rag, tatter”).
词源 2
From tat + -er.
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