Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryResembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike. · Infested with rats. · In poor condition or repair. · Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
From rat + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjective).
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