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ratshit

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Etymology

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Fromrat +‎shit.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ratshit (uncountable)

  1. (slang, vulgar, literal or figurative) Theexcrement of a rat.
    • 1978,Larry McMurtry,Somebody′s Darling, published2002,page228:
      “Do you think they haveratshit in them?” Wynkyn asked. “Swan says most hamburgers haveratshit in them.”
    • 1984,Gabrielle Carey,Just Us,page106:
      ‘Terry stop it! R—′s on, remember. If we get busted we′reratshit. We′ll never see each other again.’
    • 1987,Stephen King,The Tommyknockers,unnumbered page:
      He slammed the choke in again. ‘No, don′t you stall, youratshit plane!
    • 1992,James P. Hogan,The Multiplex Man, published2011,page46:
      “Aw, who cares? It′s all going to hell anyway. You have your turn, eat, get drunk, screw; and fifty years from now none of it′ll matter aratshit.”
    • 1995, Anne Cameron.,Wedding Cakes, Rats and Rodeo Queens,page61:
      So they pulled the furniture away from the wall and found a pile of little driedratshit pellets behind the dresser.
  2. (Australia, slang, vulgar)Nonsense,bullshit.
    • 1987,Janette Turner Hospital,After Long Absence: Dislocations,page205:
      He also said that most of the kids at school were full ofratshit and that only one or two sheilas made the place any better than buggery.
    • 1995, Irene Moores, Arthur Murray, Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee,Voices of Aboriginal Australia: Past, Present, Future,page 49,
      Do you see, Mr Bryant, why your old dream of getting to where you couldreally do something at last is going to be proved to be so muchratshit? Do you see why self-determination that isn′t really realis so muchratshit?
    • 2006, William J. Lines,Patriots: Defending Australia′s Natural Heritage,page257:
      Kerin, one of the most pro-development Ministers, told his colleagues: ‘The EIS isratshit and the guidelines are laughable’.

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Translations

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vulgar: excrement of a rat

Adjective

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ratshit (comparativemoreratshit,superlativemostratshit)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, vulgar) Of very poor quality, badlysubstandard, useless;damaged orbroken;unwell,exhausted.
    • 1987, Stuart Rintoul,Ashes of Vietnam: Australian Voices,page94:
      In the morning I wasratshit, just a bundle of nerves.
    • 2005,Peter Temple,The Broken Shore,page162:
      For a moment Cashin thought that he would be sick, that he would spew over Hopgood.
      ‘You′re lookingratshit,’ said Hopgood. ‘Even moreratshit.’
    • 2006,John Ford Noonan, “The Raunchy Dame in the Chineses Raincoat”, in Glenn Young, editor,The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004,page114:
      When I was a little girl, my mother had thisratshit recorder, reel to reel, there were no cassettes then,... anyway, when I was lonely or hurt or scared, she'd play it for me. It was THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY.
    • 2009,Bryce Courtenay,The Story of Danny Dunn, published2011,page273:
      ‘That′sratshit advice, Danny!’ Sammy, realising Bullnose was making a meal of it, cut in.
    • 2020 June 23,John Bolton,The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.:Simon & Schuster,→ISBN, page125:
      "The letter is written by the dictator of arat-shit little country."

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