Definition of RATTY

ratty

Meanings

Adjective

  • of or characteristic of rats

Adjective Satellite

  • showing signs of wear and tear
    • "a ratty old overcoat"
  • dirty and infested with rats

Adj

  • Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
  • Infested with rats.
  • In poor condition or repair.
  • Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
  • Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.

Noun

  • Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”).

Origin / Etymology

From rat + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjective).

Synonyms

aggravated, agitated, angry, annoyed, atrabilious, bad-tempered, battered, bee in one's bonnet, bilious, bitchy, bothered, brainish, brassed off, browned off, cantankerous, carnaptious, cheesed off, crabbit, crabby, cranky, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, exasperated, fantoddish, fiery, fractious, fretful, frustrated, grotchy, grouchy, grumpy, have it in for, hissy, hold a grudge, hot and bothered, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irked, irritable, irritated, knock down ginger, moth-eaten, ornery (chiefly US)}, out of sorts, peed off, peeved, peevish, pestered, pettish, petulant, pissed off, pissy, PO'd, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, raspy, rattish, ratty, shabby, shitty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, sore, splenetic, stressy, surly, tattered, tatty, teed off, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, ticked off, tired, torn, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, vexed, waspish, worn out

Scrabble Score: 8

ratty is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
ratty is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ratty is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

ratty is a valid Words With Friends word