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DROWNED RAT

Specialty Definition: DROWNED RAT

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Drowned Rat As wet as a drowned rat - i.e. soaking wet. Drowned rats certainly look deplorably wet, but so also do drowned mice, drowned cats, and drowned dogs, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: DROWNED RAT

Expressions using "DROWNED RAT": like a drowned rat look like a drowned rat. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DROWNED RAT

Language Translations for "DROWNED RAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

vypadat jako zmoklá slepice (look like a drowned rat). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

濡れ (like a drowned rat, soaked to the skin). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぬれねずみ (like a drowned rat, soaked to the skin). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owneddray atray

   

Romanian

  

ud pânã la piele (drenched to the skin, like a drowned rat, wet to the bone, wet to the skin). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

som en våt katt (like a drowned rat). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sırılsıklam (dripping, head over heels, like a drowned rat, soaking wet, sodden, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, wet through, wringing, wringing wet). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DROWNED RAT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-n-o-r-r-t-w"

-2 letters: danewort, narrowed, teardown.

-3 letters: adorned, adorner, arrowed, donated, drowned, drowner, readorn, redrawn, trodden.

-4 letters: adored, adorer, ardent, atoned, atoner, dander, darned, darner, darted, darter, dawned, dawted, deodar, doated, donate, dotard, downed, downer, drawer, droned, droner, drownd, errand, errant, narrow, nodder, onward, orated, ornate, ranted, ranter, redowa, redraw, retard, retorn, reward, reword, roared, rodent.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
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