different between tattoo vs tattooee

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

Etymology

tattoo +? -ee

Noun

tattooee (plural tattooees)

1. A person receiving a tattoo.