Definition of Natty

1. Adjective. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners. "A jaunty red hat"


Definition of Natty

1. a. Neat; tidy; spruce.

Definition of Natty

1. Adjective. (informal) Smart and fashionable. ¹

2. Adjective. (Jamaican slang) knotty (e. g. natty dreadlocks) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Natty

1. neatly dressed [adj -TIER, -TIEST] : NATTILY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Natty

natterers
nattering
natterings
natterjack
natterjacks
natters
nattery
nattier
nattiest
nattily
nattiness
nattinesses
natting
natto
nattokinase
natty (current term)
natuer
natura
naturae
natural-gas
natural ability
natural action
natural antibody
natural childbirth
natural convection
natural covering
natural dentition
natural depression

Literary usage of Natty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1875)
"This your son—this my old friend natty ?" the young lady exclaimed. " Why, so it is ! ... What am I to call you now—not natty any longer, I suppose ? ..."

2. The Metropolitan (1849)
"growled natty, lifting himself up with a sudden start, and towering above ... "Oh, natty, as you hope for mercy, save that poor boy from that terrible man ..."

3. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"Bumppo, natty (ie, Nathaniel), Of all the children of hie brain. natty Bumppo is the most universal favorite — and herein the popular judgment is assuredly ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Timothy Holmes (1883)
"Inter-' natty, with the mucous membrane of the pharynx. Posteriorly, with the mucous lining of the soft palate. This muscle must be removed and the ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"attended.—PEABODY, WB 0., 1847, Taylor's Views Afoot in Europe, North American Review, vol. 64, pp. 483, 484, 499. Then Bayard Taylor—protégé of natty, ..."

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