# hatty
## English
### Etymology 1

From hat +‎ -y.

#### Adjective

hatty (comparative hattier, superlative hattiest)
* Of, relating to, or resembling, a hat.
** 1850, London Charivari, volume 19, page 156:Every one agrees that there ought to be a reform in Hats […] A proclamation could never accomplish a hatty reform; but we are not prepared to say something might not be done by shrieval interference, which would be consistent with those municipal Institutions that all Englishmen cherish.
** 1996, Russell Grant, Russell Grant's Book of Birthdays, page 25:Expect a hat which fits the size of your head – it's a very hatty date .
** 2013, Molly Keane, Loving Without Tears:The window curtains were milky white, but over-hatted in the hattiest pelmets imaginable.
** 2013, Cheryl Ainsworth Martin, Hatty Birthday, page 9:Everyone will see my hat collections! Today is the day! It will be a Hatty Birthday!
* (of a hat) Having the features one expects of a hat.
** 1942, Michael Amrine, All Sons Must Say Goodbye, page 9:He saw a hat, and a most hatty hat, a piece of green felt, shaped with leather and cloth, combining in itself all the quintessentials of hatness contained in all the hats ever made.
** 1957, Millie Toole, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M. P.: A Biography, page 210:She should be very happy with the new hatty hats, but she should wear them at a slight angle.
** 2017, Work Projects Administration, The Voices From The Past:Dey not only made our clo's, but also made out hats. Of co'se dey wa'n't very hatty, but was mo' cappy.
** 2021, Nadine Stewart, American Milliners and their World, page 166:Many of the hattier hats, believe me, were downright gruesome.
* (of a person) Fond of hats.
** 1851, “All Round The Lord Mayor's Hat.”, in Punch, Or, The London Charivari, volume 20, page 220:We must confess that we never yet heard of such a very hatty Lord Mayor , though we have frequently heard of a Hatti-Sheriff.
** 1930, A. A. Milne, Mr Pim:Never mind about the top-hat. We aren't hatty people.
** 2013, Anna Blair, Tea at Miss Cranston's:Mother was a wee bit hatty and she got the milliner in Clarkston Road to line our straw hats with pink silk, and put daisies round them.
* Characterized by the wearing of hats.
** 1897, “Our London Letter”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 17, page 222:London remains the hattiest city in the world, and yet in this year of celebrations it has let Paris glorify the birth of the beaver.
** 1967, English Review - Volume 1, page 524:They all sat about in the summer-house and in garden-chairs, and were very hatty and ruffly and sunshadey: Three ladies and the curate played croquet with a general immense gravity broken by occasional loud cries of feigned distress from the curate.
** 1983, Pat Phoenix, Love, Curiosity, Freckles, and Doubt, page 181:The first time it happened we were at some big soirée, full of respectable, hatty ladies.
** 2019, Kerry Taylor, Galliano: Spectacular Fashion:In addition, Stephen Jones produced seven hats and, as the show was only eighteen looks, it was, he said, “fairly hatty”.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

hatty (plural hatties)
* (India, obsolete) Alternative form of hathi (“an elephant”)
** 1860, Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World, page 245:[…] the credit of it, if any there be, must be given to old Purdey, the maker of your rifle; for never do I think that grooved bore threw lead so true, and I now do not wonder at your luck in bringing down the hatties (elephants) right and left.
** 1870, The Oriental Sporting Magazine, volume 3, page 1197:Several herds of wild buffaloes were met on our way , but as our hatties, as well as the drivers, were too done up, we allowed them to pass unmolested.

### Anagrams

* Hyatt