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ratbag
noun
a contemptible person AUSTRALIA, 1890
A “ratbag” can be merely a person with odd notions, an eccentric, or someone whose ideas or behaviour verge on the insane.- BILL: You’re just a nobody. The diary of a nobody. TONY: Go on ... up to bed, you ratbag. — Hancock’s Half Hour, 30 December 1956
- Oh, that’s because you bought books written by ratbags. — Willie Fennell, Dexter Gets The Point, p. 113, 1961
- Yes, he was a real ratbag, my old man. Mad Dan Gallagher, they used to call him. — Alexander Buzo, Norm and Ahmed, p. 19, 1969
- They let any ratbag overtake them at any speed if he wants to. — John O’Grady, Aussie Etiket, p. 56, 1971
- RATBAG: An eccentric. — Arthur Chipper, The Aussie Swearer’s Guide, p. 67, 1972
- [I]t was pretty clear I’d shacked up in the health farm with a Grade A ratbag. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 44, 1985
- He said the wives of most top executives turned into raving ratbags sooner or later in spite of the fact they had colour TV, Volvos and a fridge full of Sherry. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 119, 1985
- Every half-baked ratbag in the district was on the premises[.] — Roy Slaven (John Doyle), Five South Coast Seasons, p. 53, 1992
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