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Webster 1828 Edition

Tattered

TAT'TERED

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pp.

or a. Rent; torn; hanging in rags; as a tattered garment.

Where wav'd the tatter'd ensigns of Rag-fair.

Definition 2024

tattered

tattered

English

Alternative forms

tottered

Adjective

tattered ‎(not comparable)

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.
dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
(obsolete) dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken

Translations

ragged and torn

Irish: adhastrach
Kurdish:
Sorani: شڕوشاڵ ‎(shiRoshAL)

Maori: tāreperepe
Russian: дра́ный (ru) ‎(drányj), рва́ный (ru) ‎(rványj), обо́рванный (ru) ‎(obórvannyj)
Serbo-Croatian: poderan (sh), razderan, prnjav (sh), dronjav (sh)
Spanish: andrajoso (es) m

dressed in tatters or rags

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)
Serbo-Croatian: prnjav (sh), dronjav (sh)

Verb

tattered

simple past tense and past participle of tatter

References

tattered in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
“tattered”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.