tatterer

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

tatter +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

tatterer (plural tatterers)

  1. (rare) One who or that which tatters.
    • 1968, Socialist Vanguard News Letter Service. Bulletin, page 38:
      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.
    • 1983, Thomas E. Mittler, Annual Review of Entomology, page 305:
      Leaf Tatterers and Defoliators
      This group of pecan arthropods can cause damage to foliage from shortly after budbreak until about the time of pollination.
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