tatty

noun

1. (Geordie, Northern-England, Scotland)A potato.

   “I'm buying fucking tatties.”

2. (India)A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

   “[…] tatties are placed in front of the verandahs to keep out the rains during the monsoon; […]”

3. A kind of reggae dance move.
4. (alt-of, alternative, uncommon)Alternative form of tat (“tattoo”).

adj

1. Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn.

   “The tramp wore a tatty old overcoat.”

   “I wish you would have smiled in the bakery Or sat on a tatty settee At a mutual friend's gathering”

   “I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare.”

   “Hubbard says he could easily take on more books than he would be able to sell, and some “tatty paperbacks” have such a low value that they end up getting recycled.”