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ratty
adjective- wretched, miserable, mean; stained, tattered US, 1867
- In the main they was half-witted thugs who hardly had the brains to do up their flies; or ratty little clerks who’d nicked the petty cash[.] — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 62, 1964
- Move in with me in a ratty bedsit. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 179, 1997
- The blonde guy was getting out, built like a bull in a ratty suit tight on him, too small, and a brightly patterned sportshirt–the kind you saw in stores and wondered who would ever buy a shirt like that — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 222, 1999
- angry, irritated UK, 1909
- foolish, odd, eccentric NEW ZEALAND
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 92, 1998
- crazy AUSTRALIA, 1895
- — Gavin Casey, It’s Harder for Girls, p. 18, 1941
- Macauley recognized him for what he was, and hoped he wasn’t too ratty. — D’Arcy Niland, The Shiralee, p. 163, 1955
- — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 139, 1962
- — Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, p. 122, 1968
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 76, 1977
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