natty
See also: Natty
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnæti/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -æti
Etymology 1 edit
Originally slang, perhaps related to natural.[1]
Adjective edit
natty (comparative nattier, superlative nattiest)
- (informal) Smart and fashionable. [from late 18th c.]
- 1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
- Anyway, while the creepy-video thing is under way there are also some scenes of Pullman looking very natty and East Village in all-black and jamming on his tenor sax in front of a packed dance floor (only in a David Lynch movie would people dance ecstatically to abstract jazz), […]
Translations edit
Smart and fashionable
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Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
natty (comparative nattier, superlative nattiest)
Etymology 3 edit
Alternative forms edit
Adjective edit
natty (comparative more natty, superlative most natty)
- (slang, sports, particularly bodybuilding) Natural, as opposed to steroid enhanced.
- natty gains
Translations edit
Noun edit
natty (plural natties)
- (slang, sports, particularly bodybuilding) Someone whose muscle gains are natural and not aided by the use of steroids.
Translations edit
Etymology 4 edit
Alternative forms edit
Adjective edit
natty (comparative more natty, superlative most natty)
Noun edit
natty (plural natties)
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “natty”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams edit
Jamaican Creole edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
natty (plural natty dem, quantified natty)
Adjective edit
natty
- dreadlocked, knotty, nappy
- What a way yuh 'ead natty. ― Your hair's so nappy.
- 2010, Mel Cooke, “Mid-90s Rasta revolution withers”, in The Jamaica Gleaner[1]:
- “Natty natty pon head, picky picky dung a chin. […] ”
- Dreadlocked with a scruffy beard. […]
Verb edit
natty
- to grow dreadlocks; to grow locks
- 'Im natty up him head. ― He's grown his locks.
- 2014, Gordon Robinson, “Tainted morality”, in The Jamaica Gleaner[2] (in English):
- “By his deeds shall a man be known
Natty up your head and worship Babylon throne […] ”- By his deeds shall a man be known
You've grown dreadlocks but you're still a slave to the system […]
- By his deeds shall a man be known
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996) Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 401
- natty – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary