Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
wattled

wattled

8.8
Having walls or fences made of branches and twigs woven together
  • adjective
translation icon : entrelazado
  • Farmers often use wattled fences to separate different areas of livestock.

Examples

  • At last, the buckle clicks and the doctor lunges to touch her wattled neck.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Fuck off," the old woman sniped, her wattled face like a snapping turtle's.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The elderly woman had a wattled neck that showed the passage of time.

  • The bird's wattled throat displayed vibrant colors during mating season.

Surface Forms

wattled positive

Morphology

wattled = wattle (transparent) = wattle + ed

The adjective 'wattled' is transparently derived from the noun 'wattle' with the addition of the suffix '-ed', indicating a state of having or being covered with wattles.

Etymology

Wattled comes from the word wattle, which meant a fence or wall made of 'woven sticks'. Picture thin branches woven like a basket around a frame, and that is why something wattled is built or covered with those woven branches.