LekhoriLekhoriResembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
Infested with rats.
In poor condition or repair.
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.
Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”).
From rat + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjective).
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