tattoo
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /tæˈtuː/, /təˈtuː/
From earlier tattaow, tattow, a borrowing from a poz-pol - language, e.
Nountattoo
- An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
- 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 22 ↗:
- Victor was spot on, of course; in fact, I have often been tempted to seek him out when I have been plagued by diseases of the heart. He'd be able to tell me in ten seconds whether someone was worth a tattoo or not.
- A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
- French: tatouage
- German: Tätowierung, Tattoo
- Italian: tatuaggio
- Portuguese: tatuagem
- Russian: татуиро́вка
- Spanish: tatuaje
- German: Tätowieren
- Russian: татуи́рование
tattoo (tattoos, present participle tattooing; simple past and past participle tattooed)
- To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
- (baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
- Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.
- French: tatouer
- German: tätowieren
- Italian: tatuare
- Portuguese: tatuar
- Russian: татуи́ровать
- Spanish: tatuar
From earlier tap-to, borrowed from Dutch taptoe, from tap ("tap; faucet on a cask") + toe ("to; shut").
Nountattoo
- (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
- 2017, Charles King, Cadet Days:
- Study goes on until tattoo, which, when Pops was at the Point, was sounded at 9.30, followed by taps at 10.
- (military) A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
- (military) A military display or pageant.
- German: Zapfenstreich
- German: Zapfenstreich
- Spanish: retreta
- German: Großer Zapfenstreich
- Spanish: parada
tattoo (tattoos, present participle tattooing; simple past and past participle tattooed)
- To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:
- He had looked at the clock many scores of times; and at the street, where the rain was pattering down, and the people as they clinked by in pattens, left long reflections on the shining stone: he tattooed at the table: he bit his nails most completely […]
From Hindi टट्टू.
Nountattoo (plural tattoos)
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