hatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hattier
form: hattiest
Etymology: From hat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1850, London Charivari, volume 19, page 156:
text: Expect a hat which fits the size of your head – it's a very hatty date .
ref: 1996, Russell Grant, Russell Grant's Book of Birthdays, page 25:
text: The window curtains were milky white, but over-hatted in the hattiest pelmets imaginable.
ref: 2013, Molly Keane, Loving Without Tears:
text: Everyone will see my hat collections! Today is the day! It will be a Hatty Birthday!
ref: 2013, Cheryl Ainsworth Martin, Hatty Birthday, page 9:
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling, a hat.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1942, Michael Amrine, All Sons Must Say Goodbye, page 9:
text: She should be very happy with the new hatty hats, but she should wear them at a slight angle.
ref: 1957, Millie Toole, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M. P.: A Biography, page 210:
text: 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.
ref: 2017, Work Projects Administration, The Voices From The Past:
text: Many of the hattier hats, believe me, were downright gruesome.
ref: 2021, Nadine Stewart, American Milliners and their World, page 166:
glosses: Having the features one expects of a hat.
raw_tags: of a hat
examples: text: We must confess that we never yet heard of such a very hatty Lord Mayor , though we have frequently heard of a Hatti-Sheriff.
ref: 1851, “All Round The Lord Mayor's Hat.”, in Punch, Or, The London Charivari, volume 20, page 220:
text: Never mind about the top-hat. We aren't hatty people.
ref: 1930, A. A. Milne, Mr Pim:
text: 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.
ref: 2013, Anna Blair, Tea at Miss Cranston's:
glosses: Fond of hats.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1897, “Our London Letter”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 17, page 222:
text: 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.
ref: 1967, English Review - Volume 1, page 524:
text: The first time it happened we were at some big soirée, full of respectable, hatty ladies.
ref: 1983, Pat Phoenix, Love, Curiosity, Freckles, and Doubt, page 181:
text: In addition, Stephen Jones produced seven hats and, as the show was only eighteen looks, it was, he said, “fairly hatty”.
ref: 2019, Kerry Taylor, Galliano: Spectacular Fashion:
glosses: Characterized by the wearing of hats.