rattyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæti/, [-ɾi]
• 韻: -æti
• ハイフネーション: rat‧ty

語源 1

From rat +‎ -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjective).^[1]

形容詞

ratty (comparative rattier, superlative rattiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.

   Synonym: rattish

2. Infested with rats.
3. (figuratively, informal)
   1. In poor condition or repair.

      Synonyms: battered, tattered, tatty, torn, worn out

      • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182, page 78:

        We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bed-quilt off the bed, […] and just as we were leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.

      • 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, 2011 edition, Bantam, page 535:

        The Marcher lord was still clad in his ratty black cloak and dented breastplate with its chipped enamel lightning.

      • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, 2007 edition, Picador, page 80:

        I was having exactly that thought on a ratty mock-leather couch in Islington.

   2. (Australia) Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, または over), attracted to, infatuated with.
   3. (originally Britain) Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:annoyed, Thesaurus:irritable

      • 2009, Ian McDonald, River of Gods:

        He got bad, he got ratty, he would take it out on people around him. He was mean when it turned against him.

派生語

• rattily
• rattiness

参照

Further reading

• rat on Wikipedia.

名詞

ratty (uncountable)

1. Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door かつ running away”)

アナグラム

• attry, tarty