Anglo-Ind. Short for TATTOO sb.3, a native pony of India.
c. 1840. in Parker, Bole Ponjis (1851), II. 215. With its bright brass patent axles, and its little hog maned tatts.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 109. The pony (familiarly called tat—corruption of the native name for the amall animal, tattoo).
1891. Blackw. Mag., May, 684. Cantering his tat up to the door.
