Ratting

Definition: Ratting

Ratting

Noun

1. To furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ratting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Synonym: Ratting

Don't worry, your yellow-bellied ratting will be held in the strictest confidence. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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

Books

• Ratting and Rabbiting for Amateur Gamekeepers (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Greek 

λιποταξία (defection, desertion). (various references)

Pig Latin

attingray.(various references)

Chimaera monstrosa, Coelorhynchus carminatus, Coelorhynchus coelorhynchus, Coelorinchus coelorinchus, Epimys, Macrourus atlanticus, Macrourus orhynchus, Oryzomys palustris, Rattus. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "ratting": deratting, dratting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ratting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rasting, ratin, Ratingen, ratking, ratling, ratteen, Ratti, rerating, reting, retung, riting, ritting, Wratting. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tarting.

-1 letter: gratin, rating, taring.

-2 letters: garni, giant, grain, grant, riant, taint, titan, tragi, train, trait.

-3 letters: agin, airn, airt, anti, gain, gait, girn, girt, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rant, ring, tain, tang, tarn, tart, ting, tint, trig.

-4 letters: ain, air, ait, ani, ant, art, att, gan, gar, gat, gin, git, nag, nit, rag, ran, rat, ria, rig, rin, tag, tan, tar, tat, tin, tit.

-5 letters: ag, ai, an, ar, at, in, it, na, ta, ti.

+1 letter: attiring, dratting, gnattier, rattling, rotating, starting, treating.

+2 letters: argentite, attorning, battering, brattling, deratting, garotting, integrate, intrigant, iterating, mattering, nattering, nitrating, outrating, pattering, prattling, rattening, rattlings, restating, retasting, startling, striating, targeting, tattering, threating, throating, thwarting, titrating, truanting, yattering.

+3 letters: antigrowth, argentites, astricting, astringent, attracting, blattering, bratticing, castrating, chattering, clattering, corotating, detracting, entreating, eructating, estreating, extracting, filtrating, flattering, formatting, garrotting, ingratiate, instigator, integrated, integrates, integrator, intergraft, interstage, intreating, intrigants, intriguant, irritating, lustrating, maturating, negotiator, obturating, outstaring, outtrading, pargetting, patterning, pretasting, ratcheting, rattlingly, rattooning, registrant, restarting, retracting, retreating, saturating, scattering, shattering, smattering, spattering, sprattling, straighten, stringhalt, tolerating, trajecting, transiting, truncating, upstarting, urticating.

+4 letters: abstracting, abstricting, altercating, alternating, anteverting, antigravity, arbitrating, astringents, attempering, attributing, betattering, contracting, contrasting, crepitating, deuterating, distracting, elutriating, extirpating, extraditing, extricating, foretasting, frustrating, gratulating, gratulation, gravitating, gravitation, haircutting, heartstring, impetrating, ingratiated, ingratiates, ingratitude, ingurgitate, instigators, integrality, integrating, integration, integrative, integrators, interacting, intergrafts, interrogate, intriguants, itinerating, latchstring, maltreating, micturating, misstarting, mistreating, negotiators, negotiatory, nonrotating, orientating, outsmarting, outstarting, overstating, patternings, penetrating, prattlingly, pretreating, prostrating, protagonist, protonating, protracting, readmitting, reallotting, reattaching, reattacking, reattaining, registrants, reinstating, reintegrate, reiterating, reluctating, renegotiate, retaliating, retargeting, retroacting, rusticating, scatterings, smatterings, splattering, squattering, startlingly, straightens, straighting, straitening, stratifying, stringhalts, subtracting, tapestrying, teratogenic, terminating, threatening, transacting, transecting, translating, transmuting, trapnesting, travestying, triangulate, tribulating, triturating, unstartling, vinaigrette.

+5 letters: adulterating, airtightness, alliterating, antiestrogen, articulating, astringently, autografting, autorotating, bespattering, breathtaking, carburetting, clatteringly, disintegrate, dissertating, earsplitting, entertaining, entreatingly, exenterating, expatriating, flatteringly, gastronomist, gastrulating, gastrulation, gratulations, gravitations, haircuttings, heartstrings, illustrating, infiltrating, ingratiating, ingratiation, ingratiatory, ingratitudes, ingurgitated, ingurgitates, integrations, intenerating, intergrafted, interrogated, interrogatee, interrogates, interrogator, intertillage, intransigent, investigator, irritatingly, kickstarting, latchstrings, masturbating, menstruating, motorboating, nonstrategic, obliterating, overtreating, partitioning, perpetrating, perpetuating, preadmitting, preallotting, propitiating, protagonists, reactivating, reattempting, recontacting, redintegrate, reestimating, reformatting, registration, reinitiating, reintegrated, reintegrates, remotivating, renegotiated, renegotiates, repatriating, repatterning, reticulating, revegetating, revegetation, scatteringly, shatteringly, straightened, straightener, straightness, strategizing, stridulating, stringhalted, theatergoing, transfecting, transmigrate, transmitting, transporting, trapshooting, traumatising, traumatizing, triangulated, triangulates, trifurcating, triphthongal, triplicating, ultraheating, understating, unflattering, unintegrated, vinaigrettes, vituperating.

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