Natty vs Ratty - What's the difference?
natty | ratty |
(informal) Smart and fashionable.
(Jamaican slang) knotty (e. g. natty dreadlocks)
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:
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 80:
(UK, colloquial) Irritable, annoyed.
As adjectives the difference between natty and ratty
is that natty is (informal) smart and fashionable while ratty is similar to a rat; ratlike.natty
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(er)ratty
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(er)- The Marcher lord was still clad in his ratty black cloak and dented breastplate with its chipped enamel lightning.
- I was having exactly that thought on a ratty mock-leather couch in Islington.