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tatterer

tatterer noun: one who or that which tatters.

Noun

tatterer (plural tatterers)

  1. (rare) One who or that which tatters.
    • Some people are better language-tatterers than others. And it would not, I think, be out of place here to take a closer look at an excellent example of that craft.1968, Socialist Vanguard News Letter Service. Bulletin, page 38
    • Leaf Tatterers and Defoliators
      This group of pecan arthropods can cause damage to foliage from shortly after budbreak until about the time of pollination.1983, Thomas E. Mittler, Annual Review of Entomology, page 305

Forms of tatterer

pluraltatterers

Origin of tatterer

From tatter + -er.

Questions about tatterer

What does tatterer mean?
Tatterer means one who or that which tatters.
What part of speech is tatterer?
Tatterer is a noun.
What is the plural of tatterer?
The plural of tatterer is tatterers.

Words near tatterer in the dictionary

  1. tatterdemalionism
  2. tatterdemalions
  3. tattered
  4. tatteredly
  5. tatteredness
  6. tatterer
  7. tatterers
  8. tattering
  9. tatterly
  10. tatters
  11. tattersall

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