tatie
(ˈteɪtɪ)
Also 'tato, taty, tautie, tauty.
[Dial. variant of potato n. 2: see Eng. Dial. Dict. Cf. tater; tattie.]
1. = potato 2.
| 1788 E. Picken Poems Gloss., Tawties, potatoes. 1793 R. Brown Comic Poems (1817) 118 Sawt herrings, tawties, water kale. 1805 G. M'Indoe Million of Potatoes Poems (1805) 145 It's lang ere I the taties need. 1809 T. Donaldson Poems 19 'Tatoes travel slawly down The throat. 1812 P. Forbes Poems 31 A charger's just a muckle pig, For ha'din' kail or 'tatoes. 1870 D. J. Kirwan Palace & Hovel xiv. 214 Guv us a taty, Jenny. 1894 J. Menzies Our Town 240 We div look at our tauties on Saubbath. 1920 W. de la Mare Poems 1901–1919 II. 170 There's goose, baked taties and cabbage. 1979 Bull. Yorks. Dial. Soc. Summer 15 The wor acres o gowden corn, taties an sugar beet, peearce an quiet. |
2. attrib. and Comb., as tatie pot; tatie-bogle = tattie-bogle s.v. tattie 2.
| 1838 J. M. Wilson Hist. Tales Borders IV. 306 Ye look mair like a tauty bogle than a Christian man. 1853 S. R. Whitehead Nelly Armstrong I. i. 24 It was fitter for a tatie-bogle's back than a leddy's. 1871 J. Richardson Cummerland Talk 1st Ser. 7 A dish consisting of beef or mutton, cut into pieces, and put into a large dish along with potatoes, onions, pepper, salt, etc., and then baked in the oven,..is called in Cumberland taty-pot. 1893 West Cumberland Times (Holiday No.) 5/4 ‘Begok, it's tatie pot!’ says Ben. 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Mar. 215/1 Mr Wyatt soon made friends among the woodmen and farm workers, enjoyed a tatie-pot supper at the nearest inn. 1976 Cumberland News 3 Dec. 24/2 Lazonby Methodist Church raised over {pstlg}70 with a ‘tatie-pot’ supper. 1978 R. Hill Pinch of Snuff xxiii. 234 Going off home for a tatie-pot supper and an early night. 1982 Sunday Tel. 21 Feb. 16/7 There await you, in all their rich goodness, leek pie and Mendip snails, Cumbrian tatie pot and tripe,..Dorset sausage and Somerset apple cake. |