英和和英

名詞

ratfolk pl (複数形 only)

1. (fantasy) Intelligent anthropomorphic creatures akin to (または created from) rats.
   • 2002, Glen Cook, Angry Lead Skies: A Garrett, P.I., Novel, Penguin (ISBN 9781101212462)

     Ratfolk are timid by nature and Singe was trying to make her own way outside her native society. Ratfolk males don't yell and threaten and promise massive bloodshed unless they intend to deliver. They don't banter.

   • 2010, Ari Marmell, Agents of Artifice: A Planeswalker Novel, Wizards of the Coast (ISBN 9780786955763)

     If it's just the ratfolk looking for a bit of payback, there's no reason to think you and I are in any further danger.

   • 2011, George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Down These Strange Streets, Penguin (ISBN 9781101544594)

     Foreigners wouldn't know that some ratfolk can suck it down by the barrel. Once the kids were away, Singe began babbling about needing to get back to the house fast. We had a garderobe that a ratgirl could use.