Ratty

Definition: Ratty

Ratty

Adjective

1. Showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains".

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

Date "ratty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references)

Synonyms: Ratty

Crosswords: Ratty

I am vexed and ratty, two three (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

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

Books

• Ratty Australian edition (reference)

• Ratty Tatty (reference)

• Tatty Ratty (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Beginning with "ratty": ratty-looking.

Albanian

miu (mousey, mousy), i mbushur me minj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثير الفئران, ‏متزمر (gnarled, scowling), ‏نزق (cranky, cross, irritable, mad, pernickety, pettiness, petulance, quick, rattle-brained, scatter-brain, snippy, testy, tetchy, touchiness), ‏غادر (blow, depart, disloyal, false, feline, get carried away, go, hop, insidious, jump, leave, pop off, quit, retire, scram, skip, snaky, sneak, snide, start, traitorous, treacherous), ‏شرس (gnarl, grim, ill, pungent, ruthless, sour, surly), ‏بائس (afflicted, cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, godforsaken, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, miserable, paltry, pathetic, penurious, piteous, pitiful, poor, poverty stricken, sad, scruffy, seedy, sickly, sordid, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдит (angry, cross, gruff, high, huffish, huffy, irate, ireful, peevish, red-necked, resentful, rusty, snappish, sour, stroppy, sullen), раздразнителен (bad tempered, chippy, choleric, edgy, excitable, explosive, fretful, gingery, ill, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, irascible, irritable, liverish, livery, nervous, nervy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, raspy, snappish, stroppy, techy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary), овехтял (rattletrap, rusty, shop-soiled, threadbare, worn out), нервен (edgy, fidgety, jerky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, neurotic, on edge, restless, snuffy, spooky, windy), миши (mousey, murine), мизерен (abject, flea-bitten, mangy, miserable, poverty stricken, sordid, squalid, wretched), пълен с плъхове, презрян (despicable, paltry, squalid, worthless), подобен на плъх, дрипав (ragged, shabby, tattered, tatty), долен (abject, base, bottom, contemptible, currish, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inferior, iniquitous, low, lower, low-grade, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, rascal, reptile, rotten, scaly, scurvy, shady, under, unworthy, vile, villainous). (various references)

Farsi 

موشی , موش مانند, موش وار. (various references)

French

mordant, miteux, grincheux. (various references)

German

bissig (acrimonious, bitchy, currish, edgy, fierce, prickly, scathing, snappily, snappish, snappy, sour, vicious, waspish). (various references)

Greek 

πρόστυχοσ (bitchy, caddish, cheap, coarse, common, hangdog, ignoble, lawbred, lewd, low, lowdown, low-minded, mean, ornery, raffish, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, sordid, vile, vulgar), πλήρησ ποντικών, ποντικοειδήσ (mousey, mousy), τσαντισμένοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

כעוס (angry, cross, excited). (various references)

Hungarian

vacak (bleeding, cheesy, contemptible, crummy, despicable, dross, flaming, lousy, mangy, measly, moldy, mouldy, number, paltry, pelting, piddling, pokey, potty, punk, raunchy, rinky-dink, rubbishy, ruddy, schlock, scurvied, shocking, shoddy, tacky, tatty, tinhorn, tin-pot, trash, trashy), patkányszerű, patkányoktól nyüzsgő, patkánnyal teli, nyavalyás (bally, bang, blankety-blank, bloody, bum, crock, damn, damned, flaming, potty), nyamvadt (cheesy, frigging, punk, ruddy, wretched), mérges (angry, annoyed, be angry, cross, fretful, furious, poisonous, savage, stroppy, stuffy, surly, to be choked, to be in a bad temper, to be miffed, venenous, wrathful), haragvó (furious), dühös (angry, furious, hot, irate, shirty, sick, to be choked, to be in a pet, upset, venomous, waxy, Wroth). (various references)

Indonesian

melarat (impecunious, vile). (various references)

Italian

mordace (biting, cutting, mordant, poignant, scathing), incavolato. (various references)

Manx

friogganagh (bad-tempered, bristly, cantankerous, crabby, echinoid, edgy, finned, finny, liverish, offended, prickly, setaceous, stickleback, touchy). (various references)

Pig Latin

attyray.(various references)

Portuguese

semelhante a rato (rat), próprio de rato (rat), maltrapilho (ragamuffin, rat, shabby, shake-rag, tatterdemalion, tattered, threadbare), impertinente (arrogant, brash, cantankerous, currish, impertinent, mumpish, peevish, pernickety, pettish, petulant, querulous, rat, saucy, snappish, snappy, techy, testy, tetchy), cheio de ratos, caturra (fogey, wrong-headed). (various references)

Romanian

plin de şobolani, de şobolan. (various references)

Russian 

крысиный (rat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pun pacova, pacovski. (various references)

Spanish

enfadado (aggravating, angry, cross, huffy, passionate, snuffy, vexed), cabreado, andrajoso (ragged, shabby, tattered). (various references)

Swedish

sur (acid, crabbed, cranky, cross, crotchety, dismal, grouchy, Moody, morose, sharp, shirty, sour, surly, wet). (various references)

Turkish

rüküş (frumpish, hand-me-down), yıkık dökük (ruinous, tumbledown), sinirli (apoplectic, apoplectical, bristly, choleric, discomposedly, edgy, high strung, hot-blooded, hot-headed, huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, in a pet, irate, ireful, irritable, jumpy, liverish, mad, nervous, nervy, on edge, out of humor, out of humour, peeved, pissed off, shirty, short tempered, sinewed, sinewy, spunky, testy, uptight, waxy, wild, wrought up), pasaklı (dowdy, dowdyish, draggled, frowzy, gay, messy, out of trim, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, sloven, slovenly, untidy), köhne (effete, fossil, fusty, musty, old, ramshackle, rickety, tumbledown, worn), kılıksız (dowdy, dowdyish, down heels, down the heels, draggled, frumpish, hangdog, mean, poky, seedy, shabby, sleazy, slovenly, untidy), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), harap (creaky, desolate, devastated, dilapidated, ramshackle, ruined, ruinous, waste, wrack and ruin), fareli, fare gibi (mousy, murine), asabi (choleric, crusty, hot-blooded, hot-headed, irritable, nervous, prickly, quick tempered, short tempered, techy, testy, waspish). (various references)

Ukrainian

щурячий, поношений (bare, frayed, mangy, napless, old, ole, reach-me-down, seedy, sere, time worn, well worn, worn). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "ratty": bratty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ratty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atty, Crotty, pratty, Radday, raddy, rapty, ratby, rati, Ratky, ratly, ratm, ratt, Ratte, Ratti, rattly, raty, ratyr, rautt, retty, Ritto, ritty, rity, rotaty, rotty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tarty.

-1 letter: arty, tart, tray.

-2 letters: art, att, rat, ray, rya, tar, tat, try, yar.

-3 letters: ar, at, ay, ta, ya.

+1 letter: bratty, rattly, tartly, treaty, tyrant, yatter, yttria.

+2 letters: battery, cattery, mattery, startsy, throaty, trymata, tyrants, yatters, yttrias.

+3 letters: artistry, atrocity, attorney, butyrate, chattery, citatory, clattery, cryostat, cytaster, entreaty, flattery, gratuity, gyrostat, latterly, maturity, natatory, potatory, pyrostat, rotatory, statuary, straitly, strategy, stratify, tanistry, tapestry, tenantry, terabyte, tertiary, textuary, thwartly, tiltyard, titulary, trachyte, travesty, triptyca, truantry, tutelary, yattered, ytterbia.