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🧑‍🎤 With ink designs 🧑‍🎤 Marked with ink
to tattooed

to tattooed

3.2
To make permanent ink designs on someone's skin with a needle
  • verb
  • /təˈtuːd/
translation icon : tatuar
  • She has a very beautiful woman tattooed on her calf and then a very bald man on her thigh.

Like a literally a shaft was tattooed full shaft.

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Examples

  • If you have a tiger sleeve and Meow Meow tattooed on your knuckles, please step forward.

  • She just got a beautiful flower tattooed on her arm.

  • Did you get tattooed by Joey or not?

  • So I started getting tattooed pretty young, too young.

    Jay Shetty Podcast

  • Next we'll move on to the time I got tattooed in Vegas.

    STEPHANIE TOMS

  • I have not been tattooed for a while and I forgot that it hurts.

    Jamie Genevieve

  • I just got Eazy E tattooed on my thigh last night.

  • I might as well have MGM tattooed on my backside.

    The Drew Barrymore Show

  • That's my Lotus flower. That is what I have tattooed on my back,

    Molly Burke

  • I decided to have my child's name tattooed on my chest.

Synonyms

tatted
vsto tattooed
  • Informal
8.7

Having many pictures or designs on the skin made with ink

refers to making a single permanent skin design with ink

Antonyms

to remove
∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

unmarked
43 4.3

Having no mark or label to show who it belongs to

Idioms

screwed, blued and tattooed
  • Archaic
9.9

Being in very big trouble because of something you did

How Permanent

to tattooed
3.2
to paint
854 1.0

Surface Forms

tattoo infinitive
tattooing present participle
tattoos third person singular
tattooed past
tattooed past participle

Morphology

tattooed = tattoo (transparent) = tattoo + ed

Regular past-tense formation from the verb 'tattoo' with the inflectional suffix '-ed'.

Etymology

Tattooed goes back to the Polynesian word tatau, which meant 'to mark' and described the tapping way island artists put ink into skin. So, to tattoo someone is to make a permanent mark or design on their skin, and tattooed is the past form of that action.