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
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