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rattish, a.|ˈrætɪʃ|
[f. rat n.1 + -ish1.]
1. Belonging to, resembling (that of) a rat; infested by rats.
1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2571/4 A brown bay Gelding..with..a Rattish Tayl. 1822W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) II. 99 A huge old mansion, that..is now rather rattish. 1899E. Phillpotts Human Boy 123 His thin white face had a rattish look sometimes.
2. Characteristic of a political ‘rat’.
1840Fraser's Mag. XXII. 636 Trimming, no doubt, and rattish thy career. |