flatty
noun
flatty is a noun meaning “A flatfish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-T-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flatty is flatties.
What does flatty mean?
noun
- 1
slangA flatfish.
- 2
AustraliaslangA flathead (fish).
- 3
slangA flat tire/tyre.
- 4
USarchaicslangA policeman.
- 5
slangA flathead V8 engine.
- 6
slangA hot rod fitted with a flathead V8 engine.
- 7
slangAlternative form of flattie (“operator of crooking gambling operation”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flatty?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-flatty.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flatty
- flatties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flatty?
Flatty appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flatty come from?
From flat + -y. (policeman): From flatfoot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).