Noun: tatter
| Singular | tatter |
| Plural | tatters |
Sample Sentences
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You can’t – you shan’t – you don’t – you won’t – you thing of rag and tatter, O! [1896, “Well You're a Pretty Kind of Fellow”, William S. Gilbert (lyrics), Sir Arthur Sullivan (music):]
Nouns inflected like tatter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English tater, from Old Norse tǫturr, from Proto-Germanic *tat(t)uraz (“tuft, patch”). Cognate with Icelandic tötur (“rag, tatter”). See: Middle English Nouns '
tater', Old Norse Nouns '
tǫturr', Icelandic Nouns '
tötur'.