ratbag
/ˈratbaɡ
/noun British informal
An unpleasant or disliked person: she’s a snobby old ratbag [as modifier]: they blamed the ratbag photographer...
- Eventually the old ratbag was carried away screaming across the lawn by two secret service chaps.
- In Britain the grasping cheating ratbags use the cheapest possible paper, full of acid, that goes brown and falls apart after a couple of years.
- I used to think 90 per cent of the human race were a bunch of ratbags.
Origin
Late 19th century (originally Australian): from rat + bag.
- objective reference
- objectivism
- objectivist
- objectivistic
- objectivity
- objectivization
- objectivize
- objectization
- objectize
- object language
- object lens
- objectless
- object lesson
- object-libido
- object-love
- objectly
- object matter
- objectness
- object-object
- object of virtu
- objector
- object-oriented
- object plate
- object program
- object pronoun