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Tat vs Tay - What's the difference?

tat | tay |

As nouns the difference between tat and tay

is that tat is cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze while tay is the outer membrane of the brain.

As proper nouns the difference between tat and tay

is that tat is an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern Dagestan in Russia while Tay is a township in Ontario, Canada.

As a verb tat

is to make (something by) tatting.

tat

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
  • Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
  • (India) Gunnycloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius or jute.
  • (slang) A tattoo.

    • Verb

  • (intransitive) To make (something by) tatting.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (India, dated) A pony.
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

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

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    tay

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The outer membrane of the brain.
  • *, Bk.XXI, Ch.4:
  • *:ryght so he smote hys fadir, Kynge Arthure, with hys swerde holdynge in both hys hondys, uppon the syde of the hede, that the swerde perced the helmet and the tay of the brayne.
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