tat

• IPA^(key): /tæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”)

tat (countable and uncountable, plural tats)

1. Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
2. Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
3. (countable, India) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius or jute.

Origin unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.

tat (third-person singular simple present tats, present participle tatting, simple past and past participle tatted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make (something by) tatting.

“tatting, n.1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2013.

From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū, “pony”)

• tattoo
• tatt

tat (plural tats)

1. (India, archaic) A pony.
   • 1879, Val Cameron Prinsep, Glimpses of Imperial India, page 206:

     And so each morning before daybreak I am up, and having dispatched my luggage on the backs of coolies after much noise and bustle, without which no natives can work, I mount my tat as the sun begins to touch the higher hills, and start on my morning ride of twelve miles.

Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.

tat (plural tats)

1. (slang) A tattoo.

• rat-a-tat-tat
• tit for tat
• tatt
• tatting
• tatty

• AT&T, att

• IPA^(key): [taːt]
• Rhymes: -aːt
• Homophone: Tat

tat

1. First-person singular preterite of tun.
2. Third-person singular preterite of tun.

From Proto-Uralic *tukta (“cross-beam”). Cognate with Finnish tuhto (“thwart (of a ship)”), Komi тік (tïk, “cross wood, cross bar”), and Selkup тати (“thwart (of a ship)”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒt]

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• Hyphenation: tat

tat (plural tatok)

1. (nautical) stern (the rear part or after end of a ship or vessel)

tat ?

1. cliff

tat

1. father

• Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

Compare Latin tata, a childish word for father.

tat m (plural tats)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) grandfather

• (Puter) non
• (Vallader) bazegner, bapsegner

• tatta

From Proto-Slavic *tatь (“thief”).

• IPA^(key): /tât/

tȁt m (Cyrillic spelling та̏т)

1. (expressively) thief

From Proto-Slavic *tatь (“thief”).

• IPA^(key): /tât/

tat ? (genitive [please provide], nominative plural [please provide])

1. thief

• IPA^(key): /tat/

From Old Turkic tat-‎ (tat-), from Proto-Turkic *dāt-.

tat (definite accusative tadı, plural tatlar)

1. taste

tat

1. second-person singular imperative of tatmak

tat

1. father, dad

• ezitat
• tatannimi

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “отец, папа”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From German Staat.

tat

1. state