Sc. Also taty, tawty, tattie, 9 tawtie, tautie. [app. related in form and sense to OE. tættec a rag, a tatter; cf. also TAT sb.4, which is not evidenced so early, and may be a back-formation.] Of hair, tangled, matted; of an animal or skin, shaggy with matted hair.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. xii. 63. A felloun bustuus and gret lyoun skyn, Terrible and rouch, wyth taty lokyrand haris.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, II. xi. (S. T. S.), I. 166. The hare of his berde was lang and taty [v.r. tawty].
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxxiv. Wha wad hae thought there had been as muckle sense in his tatty pow.
1834. Carlyle, in Froude, Life (1882), II. xviii. 428. Old pollarded … lime trees standing there like giants in tawtie wigs (for the new boughs are still young).
