rattyadj.

Brit.

/ˈrati/, U.S.

/ˈrædi/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rat n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < rat n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

a. Characteristic or suggestive of a rat or rats; rat-like.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [adjective] > resembling or characteristic of a rat

rattish1651

rat-like1699

ratty1852

1852 J. W. Redfield Compar. Physiognomy x. 70 But the spirit personated in the rat—oh, horrible!..incarcerating men and women in excavations of his own, where his ratty soul takes refuge in times of danger.

1888 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Young Mistley II. vi. 78 Those delightful ratty odours that..assailed his sportive nostrils.

1895 J. C. Snaith Dorothy Marvin vii He puckered his ratty eyes till scarce aught was left of them.

1947 Times 4 Dec. 6/4 The grey squirrel, though it lacks the ear tufts, is no more ratty than the red.

1976 A. Price War Game (1979) i. ix. 176 A ratty little man, sharp-featured and bright-eyed.

1980 G. Kinnell Mortal Acts, Mortal Words iii His eyes ratty, liver-lighted, he stands at the door.

b. Infested with rats.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with rats or mice

rattish1822

rat-infested1824

ratty1857

mousy1871

1857 G. Meredith Farina 100 Your German dungeons are mortal shivering ratty places.

1891 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Prisoners & Captives I. ii. 36 No dog had rejoiced more thankfully in ratty sedges.

1927 Times 29 Mar. 8/6 Rats were destroyed and ‘ratty’ ships completely cleansed—rats being looked upon as potential carriers of plague.

1939 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 8 90 The number of rats in the docks..varies from time to time with the cargoes that may be brought in from ships which are either ratty or not.

2007 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 28 Feb. 9 The department also will inspect all 20 restaurants owned by..the firm that operates the ratty KFC/Taco Bell franchise on Sixth Avenue.

2. colloquial. Wretched or in poor condition; nasty; mean; shabby, scruffy, or ragged.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and mean

ungoderlyc1400

sluttish?1529

squalid1596

scrubbing1603

sordid1611

snotty1681

frowzy1710

grub1719

seedy1725

unkempt1838

grubby1844

crumby1859

ratty1867

scruffy1871

scrutty1914

scummy1932

ribby1936

raunchy1937

sleazy1941

scroungy1948

manky1958

skanky1963

grungy1965

scungy1966

scuzzy1969

scrungy1974

skeevy1976

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > wretched thing > [adjective]

litherc1000

unornlyOE

unwrasta1122

unornc1175

lewd1362

rascal1519

rascally1600

ratty1867

1867 ‘M. Twain’ Notebk. (1935) viii. 99 Village of Bethany... It is fearfully ratty—some houses—mud.

1885 Cent. Mag. 29 548/1 An old ratty deck of cards.

1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 670/1 Both were pretty ‘ratty’ from hardship and loneliness.

1905 M. Barnes-Grundy Vacillations Hazel 235 Those coils [of hair] when down, were thinner and rattier and skimper than when up.

1962 J. D. MacDonald Girl xii. 185 Pooty-Tat sat on a ratty couch.

1990 Sun 6 Apr. 25 A woman from Central TV asked me to go on The Time And The Place. I..waited for the car—but it never came. The studio hadn't heard of her. What a ratty joke to play!

2006 P. Williams Rise & Fall Yummy Mummy vii. 62 I aggressively shove Evie's bottle into my ratty old nappy bag.

3. Australian colloquial. Mad, mentally deranged; eccentric; silly; (also) with over (also on, about): infatuated with.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky

fantastical1531

odd1577

eccentric1685

fanaticized1827

cranky1850

bee-bonneted1856

cornery1887

screwy1887

kinky1889

crankish1892

ratty1895

batchy1898

batsc1901

batty1903

potty1920

offbeat1922

off-centre1930

wacky1935

screwball1936

up the creek1941

oddball1945

wackadoo1958

kooky1959

wiggy1963

flaky1964

nutball1968

woo-woo1971

wacko1977

off-kilter1985

wackadoodle1993

fantastic-

1895 Worker (Sydney) 5 Jan. 1/5 I suppose its the heat that makes all of us a bit ratty at times.

1900 H. Lawson On Track 75 Trav'lers and strangers failed to see anything uncommonly ratty about him.

1909 Truth (Sydney) 24 Jan. 1/4 The Male Train: Wimmin who go ratty on a matinee hero.

1922 A. Wright Colt from Country 86 There was a rough-up in a pub; he got a knock, had a fit, and went real ratty, and that was the end of him.

1923 Aussie: Cheerful Mag. July 20/3 He can't sleep for lovin' you... It's the truth. He's fair ratty over you.

1932 Listening Post (Perth) Aug. 4 But you needn't have kept on praising [the girl] you are ratty about.

1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 23 Mar. (Guide section) 1 Just as ratty was a piece on a flirtation clinic.

2007 Frankston Standard-Hastings Leader (Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Jan. 3 You can stay home and go ratty, being on your own.

4. Originally British colloquial. Irritable; annoyed, cross.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [adjective]

annoyedc1330

crabbedc1480

provoked1538

chafing1539

nettledc1576

chafed1582

irritated1595

as mad as Ajax1598

aggravated1611

enchafeda1616

irritate1626

on or upon the fret1679

as mad as a wet hen1823

as mad as a meat axe1855

scotty1867

hacked1892

raggy1900

ratty1909

pipped1914

fucked-off1923

rubbed1927

eggy1935

broigus1937

salty1938

pissed1943

peed off1948

1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane xvi. 215 Shut up. She's ratty.

1913 H. Walpole Fortitude i. iv. 53 All right, you needn't be ratty about it!

1929 W. P. Ridge Affect. Regards 226 Have I ever got ratty with you, Elsie?

1976 T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die vi. 122 I'd simply have asked her what the hell she was so ratty about.

2003 Canberra Times (Nexis) 19 Apr. a5 When the kids get ratty, often a well-known and liked tune may be the key to settle them.

Compounds

ratty-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1852 G. W. Curtis Nile Notes of Howadji xxiv. 160 Yellow, ratty-looking dogs barking from the mud-caked roofs.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xix. 161 Both of them had big fat ratty-looking carpet-bags.

1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 1 May c1/1 A ratty-looking hat that looks like 1,000 buffalo tried to play tag with it.

Derivatives

ˈrattily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [adverb]

impatiently1490

tetchily1647

touchily1658

testily1755

spleenishly1775

splenetically1779

edgily1837

irritably1855

shirtily1879

teethily1879

spleenfully1882

soreheadedly1883

teasily1928

rattily1938

snarkily1967

1938 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 10 May 24/5 The Orange Terrors are a colorful lot but tough, very tough, thanks to the genius of that rattily dressed fellow, Joe R. Shields.

1977 T. Heald Just Desserts vii. 169 ‘We're supposed to be buddies,’ said Bognor, rattily.

1989 L. Kennedy On My Way to Club ii. 47 ‘Oh, Scots of course,’ said my mother, rather rattily.

ˈrattiness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun]

vice1398

undisposedness1600

unsoundness1605

vitiosity1647

craziness1664

viciousness1669

disintegrity1861

rattiness1898

spoilage1928

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [noun]

impatiencec1230

eagernessa1400

unsufferancea1400

impatiency1526

testiness1526

impatientness1550

touchiness1603

tetchiness1623

irritability1791

twitchiness1834

rustiness1860

soreheadedness1860

shirtiness1868

chippiness1877

rattiness1898

cabin fever1918

snarkiness1960

edginess1963

1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Feb. 14/3 Asked him what he thought about the alleged ‘rattiness’ of himself and co. ‘Ratty?’ he asked. ‘Who says we're ratty?’

1944 Los Angeles Times 25 Dec. ii. 7 The sheer rattiness of an appallingly large number of young men in this country..is apparent in the unhuman way they desert wife and baby.

1993 Daily Mail (Nexis) 29 Apr. 31 A trim every eight to ten weeks is essential to strengthen long hair and keep rattiness at bay.

2000 V. Nell Cross-Cultural Neuropsychol. Assessm. vii. 122 She..complained of increased ‘rattiness’ with her son..and her boyfriend.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	ratty
释义	rattyadj. Brit. /ˈrati/, U.S. /ˈrædi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rat n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < rat n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Characteristic or suggestive of a rat or rats; rat-like. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [adjective] > resembling or characteristic of a rat rattish1651 rat-like1699 ratty1852 1852 J. W. Redfield Compar. Physiognomy x. 70 But the spirit personated in the rat—oh, horrible!..incarcerating men and women in excavations of his own, where his ratty soul takes refuge in times of danger. 1888 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Young Mistley II. vi. 78 Those delightful ratty odours that..assailed his sportive nostrils. 1895 J. C. Snaith Dorothy Marvin vii He puckered his ratty eyes till scarce aught was left of them. 1947 Times 4 Dec. 6/4 The grey squirrel, though it lacks the ear tufts, is no more ratty than the red. 1976 A. Price War Game (1979) i. ix. 176 A ratty little man, sharp-featured and bright-eyed. 1980 G. Kinnell Mortal Acts, Mortal Words iii His eyes ratty, liver-lighted, he stands at the door. b. Infested with rats. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with rats or mice rattish1822 rat-infested1824 ratty1857 mousy1871 1857 G. Meredith Farina 100 Your German dungeons are mortal shivering ratty places. 1891 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Prisoners & Captives I. ii. 36 No dog had rejoiced more thankfully in ratty sedges. 1927 Times 29 Mar. 8/6 Rats were destroyed and ‘ratty’ ships completely cleansed—rats being looked upon as potential carriers of plague. 1939 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 8 90 The number of rats in the docks..varies from time to time with the cargoes that may be brought in from ships which are either ratty or not. 2007 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 28 Feb. 9 The department also will inspect all 20 restaurants owned by..the firm that operates the ratty KFC/Taco Bell franchise on Sixth Avenue. 2. colloquial. Wretched or in poor condition; nasty; mean; shabby, scruffy, or ragged. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and mean ungoderlyc1400 sluttish?1529 squalid1596 scrubbing1603 sordid1611 snotty1681 frowzy1710 grub1719 seedy1725 unkempt1838 grubby1844 crumby1859 ratty1867 scruffy1871 scrutty1914 scummy1932 ribby1936 raunchy1937 sleazy1941 scroungy1948 manky1958 skanky1963 grungy1965 scungy1966 scuzzy1969 scrungy1974 skeevy1976 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > wretched thing > [adjective] litherc1000 unornlyOE unwrasta1122 unornc1175 lewd1362 rascal1519 rascally1600 ratty1867 1867 ‘M. Twain’ Notebk. (1935) viii. 99 Village of Bethany... It is fearfully ratty—some houses—mud. 1885 Cent. Mag. 29 548/1 An old ratty deck of cards. 1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 670/1 Both were pretty ‘ratty’ from hardship and loneliness. 1905 M. Barnes-Grundy Vacillations Hazel 235 Those coils [of hair] when down, were thinner and rattier and skimper than when up. 1962 J. D. MacDonald Girl xii. 185 Pooty-Tat sat on a ratty couch. 1990 Sun 6 Apr. 25 A woman from Central TV asked me to go on The Time And The Place. I..waited for the car—but it never came. The studio hadn't heard of her. What a ratty joke to play! 2006 P. Williams Rise & Fall Yummy Mummy vii. 62 I aggressively shove Evie's bottle into my ratty old nappy bag. 3. Australian colloquial. Mad, mentally deranged; eccentric; silly; (also) with over (also on, about): infatuated with. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky fantastical1531 odd1577 eccentric1685 fanaticized1827 cranky1850 bee-bonneted1856 cornery1887 screwy1887 kinky1889 crankish1892 ratty1895 batchy1898 batsc1901 batty1903 potty1920 offbeat1922 off-centre1930 wacky1935 screwball1936 up the creek1941 oddball1945 wackadoo1958 kooky1959 wiggy1963 flaky1964 nutball1968 woo-woo1971 wacko1977 off-kilter1985 wackadoodle1993 fantastic- 1895 Worker (Sydney) 5 Jan. 1/5 I suppose its the heat that makes all of us a bit ratty at times. 1900 H. Lawson On Track 75 Trav'lers and strangers failed to see anything uncommonly ratty about him. 1909 Truth (Sydney) 24 Jan. 1/4 The Male Train: Wimmin who go ratty on a matinee hero. 1922 A. Wright Colt from Country 86 There was a rough-up in a pub; he got a knock, had a fit, and went real ratty, and that was the end of him. 1923 Aussie: Cheerful Mag. July 20/3 He can't sleep for lovin' you... It's the truth. He's fair ratty over you. 1932 Listening Post (Perth) Aug. 4 But you needn't have kept on praising [the girl] you are ratty about. 1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 23 Mar. (Guide section) 1 Just as ratty was a piece on a flirtation clinic. 2007 Frankston Standard-Hastings Leader (Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Jan. 3 You can stay home and go ratty, being on your own. 4. Originally British colloquial. Irritable; annoyed, cross. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [adjective] annoyedc1330 crabbedc1480 provoked1538 chafing1539 nettledc1576 chafed1582 irritated1595 as mad as Ajax1598 aggravated1611 enchafeda1616 irritate1626 on or upon the fret1679 as mad as a wet hen1823 as mad as a meat axe1855 scotty1867 hacked1892 raggy1900 ratty1909 pipped1914 fucked-off1923 rubbed1927 eggy1935 broigus1937 salty1938 pissed1943 peed off1948 1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane xvi. 215 Shut up. She's ratty. 1913 H. Walpole Fortitude i. iv. 53 All right, you needn't be ratty about it! 1929 W. P. Ridge Affect. Regards 226 Have I ever got ratty with you, Elsie? 1976 T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die vi. 122 I'd simply have asked her what the hell she was so ratty about. 2003 Canberra Times (Nexis) 19 Apr. a5 When the kids get ratty, often a well-known and liked tune may be the key to settle them. Compounds ratty-looking adj. ΚΠ 1852 G. W. Curtis Nile Notes of Howadji xxiv. 160 Yellow, ratty-looking dogs barking from the mud-caked roofs. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xix. 161 Both of them had big fat ratty-looking carpet-bags. 1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 1 May c1/1 A ratty-looking hat that looks like 1,000 buffalo tried to play tag with it. Derivatives ˈrattily adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [adverb] impatiently1490 tetchily1647 touchily1658 testily1755 spleenishly1775 splenetically1779 edgily1837 irritably1855 shirtily1879 teethily1879 spleenfully1882 soreheadedly1883 teasily1928 rattily1938 snarkily1967 1938 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 10 May 24/5 The Orange Terrors are a colorful lot but tough, very tough, thanks to the genius of that rattily dressed fellow, Joe R. Shields. 1977 T. Heald Just Desserts vii. 169 ‘We're supposed to be buddies,’ said Bognor, rattily. 1989 L. Kennedy On My Way to Club ii. 47 ‘Oh, Scots of course,’ said my mother, rather rattily. ˈrattiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] vice1398 undisposedness1600 unsoundness1605 vitiosity1647 craziness1664 viciousness1669 disintegrity1861 rattiness1898 spoilage1928 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [noun] impatiencec1230 eagernessa1400 unsufferancea1400 impatiency1526 testiness1526 impatientness1550 touchiness1603 tetchiness1623 irritability1791 twitchiness1834 rustiness1860 soreheadedness1860 shirtiness1868 chippiness1877 rattiness1898 cabin fever1918 snarkiness1960 edginess1963 1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Feb. 14/3 Asked him what he thought about the alleged ‘rattiness’ of himself and co. ‘Ratty?’ he asked. ‘Who says we're ratty?’ 1944 Los Angeles Times 25 Dec. ii. 7 The sheer rattiness of an appallingly large number of young men in this country..is apparent in the unhuman way they desert wife and baby. 1993 Daily Mail (Nexis) 29 Apr. 31 A trim every eight to ten weeks is essential to strengthen long hair and keep rattiness at bay. 2000 V. Nell Cross-Cultural Neuropsychol. Assessm. vii. 122 She..complained of increased ‘rattiness’ with her son..and her boyfriend. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1852
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