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ratty(dictionary)

ratty (iou)



ratty adjective. ['rati] M19.
[from RAT noun1 + -Y1.]
a. Infested with rats. M19.
b. Characteristic of a rat or rats. L19.
a. Shabby; wretched; nasty. colloq. M19.
R. Jaffe The boy was in ratty jeans. New Yorker He slept..on her ratty old mattress.
b. Irritable; annoyed, angry. colloq. E20.
Nursing She was ratty and miserable. E. O'Brien Admitted to having been..ratty with her on account of her being so late.
c. Mad; eccentric. Austral. & NZ colloq. L19.
rattily adverb L20.
rattiness noun L20.