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Ratty

adjective

Of or characteristic of rats.

Showing signs of wear and tear. Synonyms: moth-eaten, shabby, tatty. "Shabby furniture" , "An old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

Dirty and infested with rats.

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"Ratty" Quotes from Famous Books

... he said, "I'm sorry I was a bit ratty last night. I don't know what came over me. I've been thinking of what you said, and I agree that your view is the right one. I've decided that if you'll have me, I'm in this thing until we're both satisfied there's nothing going ...

— The Pit Prop Syndicate • Freeman Wills Crofts

... right! Ye needn't get ratty. If you want t' pamper the bloomin' Kid, it's none of my business, I s'pose.... All the same, you took jolly good care I did my 'peggy' last voyage! There was ...

— The Brassbounder - A Tale of the Sea • David W. Bone

... [a] Wear a scarlet petycote. [b] Line a jacket with white and black lambskin sewn diamond-wise. [c] Keep your neck warm. [d] Wear goatskin gloves. [e] Don't stand long on grass or stones. [f] Don't sleep in ratty rooms. [g] Don't ...

— Early English Meals and Manners • Various

... his engagement, but with threats of immediate extermination if he should so much as give a hint of it, Dawn kept him in abeyance, and altogether behaved so erratically that Andrew candidly published his belief that she had gone "ratty." ...

— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin

... slight, fair-haired and blue-eyed Australian girl. She is up for inciting One-Eyed Kate to resist the police. Also, Three-Pea Ginger, Stousher, and Wingy, for some participation in the row amongst the aforementioned ladies. (Wingy, by the way, is a ratty little one-armed man, whose case is usually described in the head-line, as "A 'Armless Case," by one of our great dailies.) And their pals are waiting outside in the vestibule—Frowsy Kate (The Red Streak), Boko Bill, Pincher and his "piece," etc., getting together the ...

— The Rising of the Court • Henry Lawson