A Scottish dialect word for worn-out or ragged clothing — the kind barely worth keeping. Used dismissively to describe threadbare dress. Now thoroughly obsolete, it has a satisfying comic weight that feels more expressive than plain 'rags.' Typically used about the dress of someone poor or careless.
He showed up at the door in nothing but tatterwallop, like he hadn't owned decent clothes in years.
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(Scotland, obsolete) clothing; rags.
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