ratty
2
7.5
- adjective
- /ˈræti/
:
con aspecto de rata
- You need Ron and the guy working the toilet sign is too ratty-looking and you're too old.
- ratty hair
- ratty-looking
Like someone's a bit conniving and and ratty.
- Like someone's a bit conniving and and ratty.
Examples
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Lank, pale hair showed under his ratty foxskin hat.
Fiction book (2002) -
"Dakota City?" one of the men hooted in a high voice from out of the ratty fur around his pulled-up hood.
Fiction book (1997) -
So tell me, that weird guy in the ratty bathrobe at the toy store?
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Freycinet made an unpleasant, ratty face.
Fiction book (1996) -
This one's ugly, and it's got a smart-aleck face, and its hair's all ratty.
Fiction book (1996) -
So no, you brought us some bun ratty Irish whiskey and that is a does that say potato malt on the bottom?
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She didn't even tell you any of this when the other morning it was such a crisis I thought she was going to jump out of her skin if the ratty thing didn't come back?
Fiction book (2002) -
Two ratty-looking boys in life jackets, their long rock-n-roll hair plastered to their foreheads and necks.
Fiction book (1996) -
I can't believe you still wear that ratty coat; it looks like it's falling apart.
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The children laughed at the stray dog with its ratty fur and thin body.
Synonyms
A person or animal that has the look and actions of a rat
Antonyms
Compounds
- Informal
1
4.0
A worn, shabby piece of warm clothing with holes that still keeps you warm
How Rat-like
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ratty is made from rat and -y, meaning 'like a rat', so it describes things that seem rat-like. That is why ratty can mean having the look or feel of a rat: small, scruffy, or unpleasant.