different between tattoo vs tattooed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæ?tu(?)/, [t?æ?t?u?(?)]

Etymology 1

From earlier tattaow, tattow, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”).

Noun

tattoo (plural tattoos)

1. An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
2. A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).

Derived terms

• tat
• tatt

Translations

Verb

tattoo (third-person singular simple present tattoos, present participle tattooing, simple past and past participle tattooed)

1. To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
2. (baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.

Derived terms

• screwed, blued and tattooed
• screwed, glued and tattooed

Translations

Derived terms

Further reading

• tattoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From earlier tap-to, borrowed from Dutch taptoe, from tap (“tap; faucet on a cask”) + toe (“to; shut”). More at tap, to.

Noun

tattoo (countable and uncountable, plural tattoos)

1. (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
   • 2017, Charles King, Cadet Days

     Study goes on until tattoo, which, when Pops was at the Point, was sounded at 9.30, followed by taps at 10.

2. (military) A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
3. (military) A military display or pageant.

Translations

Verb

tattoo (third-person singular simple present tattoos, present participle tattooing, simple past and past participle tattooed)

1. To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:

     He had looked at the clock many scores of times; and at the street, where the rain was pattering down, and the people as they clinked by in pattens, left long reflections on the shining stone: he tattooed at the table: he bit his nails most completely […]

Further reading

• military tattoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

From Hindi ????? (?a???).

Noun

tattoo (plural tattoos)

1. A pony of a certain breed from India.

English

Adjective

tattooed (comparative more tattooed, superlative most tattooed)

1. Having with one or more tattoos.

   The man was so heavily tattooed that it was almost impossible to find any bare skin on his body.

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Hyponyms

• laser-tattooed

Verb

tattooed

1. simple past tense and past participle of tattoo