tattered

English

Alternative forms

• tottered

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English tatered, tatird, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse. Originally, it was derived from the noun, but it was later it reanalysed as a past participle (tatter +‎ -ed), whereafter the verb came into being. Compare tatter.

Adjective

tattered (not comparable)

1. rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     The chattering, irrational brute of the subconscious clothes itself in the tattered garments of rationality and idealism.

2. dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
   • 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 101:

     The tattered man waved his hand.

3. (obsolete) dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken

Related terms

• tatty
• tatterdemalion

Translations

ragged and torn

• Azerbaijani: cırıq
• Finnish: resuinen
• French: abîmé (fr), en loques, en haillons, loqueteux (fr) m
• Irish: adhastrach, ribíneach
• Italian: stracciato (it), a brandelli, liso (it)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: pertūsus
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: tāreperepe
• Occitan: esparracat
• Russian: дра́ный (ru) (drányj), рва́ный (ru) (rványj), обо́рванный (ru) (obórvannyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏дера̄н, раздеран, пр̏њав, дро̏њав

  Roman: pȍderān (sh), razderan, pȑnjav (sh), drȍnjav (sh)

• Spanish: andrajoso (es) m

dressed in tatters or rags

• Finnish: resuinen
• Galician: adán, albardeiro (gl), badanas (gl), baldreo, baldroeiro, baldrogas, bandalleiro, bandallo, brégolas (gl), calazas, capiceiro, esfarrapado, fargallón, farrapeiro, farrapento, farroupeiro, galdrapeiro, palafustrán, pastrán, pelandrán, pingallo, pingón, torgallo, touporroutou, vascalleiro, vascallo, zalapastrán, zampallán, zampallón
• Portuguese: esfarrapado (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пр̏њав, дро̏њав

  Roman: pȑnjav (sh), drȍnjav (sh)

Verb

tattered

1. simple past and past participle of tatter

References

• “tattered”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “tattered”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1989.