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Rattiest vs Cattiest - What's the difference?

rattiest | cattiest |

As adjectives the difference between rattiest and cattiest

is that rattiest is (ratty) while cattiest is (catty).

rattiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (ratty)

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    ratty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Similar to a rat; ratlike.
  • Infested with rats.
  • (colloquial) In poor condition or repair; worn out; battered; tattered; torn.
  • * 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 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 , Picador 2007, p. 80:
    • I was having exactly that thought on a ratty mock-leather couch in Islington.
  • (UK, colloquial) Irritable, annoyed.

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    cattiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (catty)

    • catty

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cattie

    Etymology 1

    ; in sense “hostility”, see (m).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal, of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women.
  • (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a cat.
    • a catty smell
    Synonyms
    * (spiteful) bitchy (derogatory), cattish, malicious, nasty, snide, spiteful
    Related terms
    * (l)
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) kati, from (etyl) languages, Mandarin:

    Noun

    (head)
  • A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram.
  • * 2009 , Huaiyin Li, Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008 , Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-5974-8, page 94:
    • To limit team members' consumption, it issued food stamps to the villagers and allowed everyone to eat one catty of rice a day.
  • * 1699 , Captain William Dampier, A new voyage round the world, Volume 1 :
    • 16 Mess'', make a ''Tale'', which here is 20 ''s''. ''English'', 5 ''Tale'' make a ''Bancal'', a weight so called, and 20 ''Bancal'' make a ''Catty , another weight.
  • * 1847 , Robert Montgomery Martin, China; Political, Commercial, and Social , Volume 2, James Madden (publisher), page 124:
    • Transparent yellow pieces are the best; the price is from eight to fourteen dollars per catty , according to size and quality.
    See also
    * (Hong Kong units) chek , tsun , fan , picul , tael , mace , candareen , tsin , leung , kan , tam English terms with multiple etymologies