| 词汇 | tattered |
| 词源 | tattered [ME] Like *tag, tattered is first found relating to the medieval fashion for slashed clothing, in the sense ‘dressed in decoratively slashed or jagged clothing’. Tatter ‘scrap of cloth’ comes from Old Norse tǫtrar ‘rags’. Tatty [LME], originally Scots for ‘tangled, matted, shaggy’, is related, and was shortened to tat ‘worthless articles’ in the mid 19th century. |
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