English
tatteredly
From tattered + -ly.
Formed from tattered + -ly
Proto-Germanic *tat(t)uraz ‘tuft, bushy mass’
Old Norse tǫturr ‘tatters, rags’
Middle English tatered
English tattered
Today it means
adv In a tattered way; raggedly.
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Etymograph / tatteredly