‣ tattie beetle a potato masher 18-.
‣ tattite howking the potato harvesting: This [camp site] is filled to capacity around tattie-howking time. 19-.
‣ tattie liftin the potato harvest: Tattie-lifting is in full swing, and I'm imprisoned in Crieff Junior Secondary School. 20-.
‣ tattie come a surik battered, bruised 20-.
‣ to gie someone their tatties to give someone their just deserts: The other Travellers will not hit him or report him, and he knows that and lippens [relies] on it. Sine dat [soon that] somebody will give him his tatties. 20-.
‣ grow tatties on jocular be so dirty that pototoes could be grown on a person or in a place: You could have grown tatties on her, she was that clarted with muck. la20-. etymology: a contraction of Scots pitawtie ‘a potato’; attested by BS in TDITA; tatties and the phrase ‘gie someone their tatties’ attested by BW; tattie come a surik only attested by SR and DW