tatty

Etymology 1

Clipping of potato.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England, Tyneside) A potato.
   I'm buying fucking tatties. 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 245

Etymology 2

From tatter + -y.

adj

1. Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn
   The tramp wore a tatty old overcoat.
   I wish you would have smiled in the bakery Or sat on a tatty settee At a mutual friend's gathering 2007, Arctic Monkeys, “The Bakery”, in Fluorescent Adolescent
   I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare. December 2 2020, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67

Etymology 3

From Hindi [Term?].

noun

1. (India) A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.
   […] tatties are placed in front of the verandahs to keep out the rains during the monsoon; […] 1855, Pharoah and Co, A Gazetteer of Southern India, page 553

Etymology 4

noun

1. A kind of reggae dance move.