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tatted

tatted

8.7
Having many pictures or designs on the skin made with ink
  • adjective
  • /ˈtætɪd/
  • Informal
translation icon : tatuado
  • At the beach, she felt confident flaunting her tatted legs, which were decorated with vibrant ink.

So I walked back there and there's this big heavily tatted dude that's wearing the blue Best Buy shirt.

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Examples

  • Will the person with the tatted torso please step forward?

  • So I walked back there and there's this big heavily tatted dude that's wearing the blue Best Buy shirt.

  • So I feel like he was one of the first people to really to bring that tatted look as a as a artist.

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  • We'll be like, Oh my God, right, Seven years from now, I'm going to be tatted up with nine kids.

  • When this car rolled by... and this tatted hand pulled out a gun.

  • I was in the corner talking to my friend who was tatted from head to toe head of the Aran nation, right?

  • Just like his pale, tatted up like body up to Kim Kardashian.

  • No, dude, these four giant guys tatted up and it was me, Parker, Paige and Connor.

  • No, he's all tatted out and he's going to have his skin done after he's dead.

  • and I knock on the door, they're screen and Big Ray all tatted up, no shirt on. He's through the street. What's up, buddy? He said

Synonyms

tattooed
vstatted
1 3.4

Having permanent ink designs on the skin

has many inked designs covering much of the body rather than a few

How Tattooed

tatted
  • Informal
8.7
tattooed
1 3.4
untattooed
1 4.4

Surface Forms

tatted positive

Morphology

tatted = tattoo (transparent) = tattoo + ed

The meaning 'having tattoos' is directly derived from the verb 'tattoo' with the participial suffix '-ed', though the informal clipped form 'tatted' replaces 'tattooed'.

Etymology

Tatted comes from tattoo, which itself comes from the Tahitian word tatau meaning 'to mark'. So if someone is tatted, they are 'marked with ink' on their skin and have tattoos.