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Tattoed vs Tatted - What's the difference?

tattoed | tatted |

As verbs the difference between tattoed and tatted

is that tattoed is past tense of tattoo while tatted is past tense of tat.

tattoed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) (tattoo)

  • tattoo

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia tattoo) (en noun)
  • An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
  • A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, which now is usually a solenoid-driven needle, that carries the inks to lower layers of the skin.
  • Verb

  • To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
  • (baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
  • Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.

    Derived terms

    * tatt * tattoo artist * tattoo parlour *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) taptoe.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
  • A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
  • A military display or pageant.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) tatt? .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A breed of pony from India; a pony of that breed.
  • tatted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tat)

  • 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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