TATTER-De-mallion,
a tattered Beggar, sometimes half naked, with Design to move Charity, having better Cloaths at Home. in Tatters; in Rags. Tattered and Torn; rent and torn.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).