单词 | rat-like |
释义 | > as lemmasrat-like rat-like adv. and adj. 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 1699 J. Wyeth Anguis Flagellatus viii. 191 If the Snake can shew that it is not so, it will be better to confute the whole, than to nibble, Rat like, at three words of it. 1770 Fugitive Polit. Ess. 124 With a true genuine rat like disposition, as soon as ever the ship was in danger, he forsook it and fled. 1792 ‘P. Pindar’ More Money! 17 With all his fame, your daring Squire May, rat-like, squeak unpitied in the fire. 1846 G. R. Waterhouse Nat. Hist. Mammalia I. 225 Its rat-like tail. 1999 WA Business News (Austral.) (Nexis) 25 Nov. Ask the..person in the street..seen racing ratlike from appointment to carpark about the use of time and they will say:..Time is money, mate. 2003 New Mexico Mag. Oct. 28 It's about the size of a possum, but looks stockier and not so rat-like. < as lemmas |
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