rathole
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈræˌhoʊl/
- Informal
:
cuarto miserable
- He complained that his office felt more like a rathole than a workspace.
Examples
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After years of living in that cramped rathole, she finally found a new apartment.
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She was moving out of the rathole and into a fabulous guest house behind a sprawling Tudor in Brentwood.
Fiction book (2000) -
Look around, we're in a rathole.
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Crawl back in your rathole.
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Oh, Mutki, we're living in a rathole.
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He was impressed and couldn't help but compare the environment with his own utilitarian, metal-desked, peeling-walled rathole.
Fiction book (1992) -
The tiny rathole lacked basic amenities, making it hard to stay comfortable.
Synonyms
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7.9
A very dirty, unpleasant, and dangerous place
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5.3
A small enclosed space used for storing things, doing small tasks, or as a quiet nook
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6.8
A very messy place with many things mixed together
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9.5
A building that is very dirty, unsafe, and falling apart
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7.0
An unpleasant run-down place where few people want to live
A small dirty house or room where poor people live
A very messy place like a room full of toys
A very dirty, unpleasant place, often a public toilet
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rathole is from rat + hole, and people used the image of a place where rats live to call a very small, dirty, or uncomfortable room a 'rathole'. So a rathole can mean a tiny, unpleasant room or work space.