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Rattiest vs Battiest - What's the difference?

rattiest | battiest |

As adjectives the difference between rattiest and battiest

is that rattiest is (ratty) while battiest is (batty).

rattiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (ratty)

    • Anagrams

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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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    battiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (batty)

    • batty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
  • (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
    • Batty wings. — Shakespeare.

    Derived terms

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    See also

    * squirrelly

    Noun

    (batties)
  • (West Indian slang) The buttocks or anus.
  • (Jamaica, UK, derogatory) A homosexual man.
  • * 1996 , Rudi Bleys, The geography of perversion
    • For example, recent Jamaican 'raga' lyrics by Buju Banton and Brand Nubian attach the affirmation of black identity to crude animosity towards homosexuality and contain offensive language against the 'batties' as icons of non-blackness.

    Derived terms

    * batty boy * batty man * batty rider

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