ratty

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹæti/    美 /ˈɹæti/|[-ɾi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”). uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
  2. Infested with rats.
  3. In poor condition or repair. figuratively,informal
    — We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bed-quilt off the bed, […] and just as we were leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.
  4. Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with. Australia,figuratively,informal
  5. Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable. figuratively,informal
    — He got bad, he got ratty, he would take it out on people around him. He was mean when it turned against him.

词形变化

rattier comparative rattiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
rattily rattiness

词源

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