Rat

Noun

 * 1)  Any of about 56 different species of small, omnivorous rodents belonging to the genus Rattus.
 * 2)  A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
 * 3)  A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel.
 * What a rat, leaving us stranded here!
 * 1) * 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
 * He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house.
 * 1)  An informant or snitch
 * 2)  A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
 * Our teenager has become a mall rat.
 * He loved hockey and was a devoted rink rat.
 * 1)  A promiscuous person - often a young female - who attends sporting and other entertainment events, primarily to seek sexual liaisons with athletes, entertainers and/or others traveling with them; a groupie.
 * 2) Informer.
 * 3) Scab
 * 4) North West London slang term for Vagina, as in ''get your rat out.
 * 5) A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.

Synonyms

 * traitor (see for more synonyms)
 * stool pigeon

Derived terms

 * black rat
 * brown rat
 * desert rat
 * give a rat's ass
 * greater cane rat
 * like rats from a sinking ship


 * love rat
 * ratfink
 * ratter
 * rat race
 * rattail
 * ratty


 * rat's nest
 * rat-trap
 * ring rat
 * smell a rat

Verb

 * 1)  to betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in, bewray.
 * He ratted on his coworker.
 * He is going to rat us out!
 * 1)  To kill rats.

Synonyms

 * (to betray someone to an authority): tell on, to finger or "put the finger on", bewray.

Verbs for Rat
experiment on—s; exterminate—s; infest with—s; plague with—s; poison—s; rid of —s; trap—; —burrows; —digs; —excavates; — frequent; —gnaws; —haunts; — infects; —nibbles; —penetrates; —pillages; —preys on; —ravages; —roves; —scampers; —scurries; —thrives.

Thesaurus
Angora goat, Arctic fox, Belgian hare, Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Caffre cat, Indian buffalo, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Kodiak bear, Quisling, SOB, Virginia deer, aardvark, aardwolf, alpaca, anteater, antelope, antelope chipmunk, aoudad, apar, apostate, apostatize, archtraitor, armadillo, ass, aurochs, babble, badger, bandicoot, bassarisk, bastard, bat, be indiscreet, be unguarded, bear, bear witness against, beaver, betray, betray a confidence, betrayer, bettong, binturong, bison, blab, blabber, black bear, black buck, black cat, black fox, black sheep, blackleg, blow the whistle, blue fox, blurt, blurt out, bobcat, bolt, break away, brown bear, brush deer, brush wolf, buffalo, buffalo wolf, bugger, burro, burro deer, cachalot, camel, camelopard, capybara, carabao, caribou, carpincho, cat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cattalo, cavy, chamois, cheetah, chevrotain, chignon, chinchilla, chipmunk, cinnamon bear, cockatrice, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, coon, coon cat, cotton mouse, cotton rat, cougar, cow, coyote, coypu, creep, cur, deer, deer tiger, defect, defector, desert, dingo, dog, donkey, dormouse, double agent, double-crosser, double-dealer, dromedary, echidna, eland, elephant, elk, ermine, eyra, fall, fallow deer, false hair, fart, ferret, field mouse, fink, fisher, fitch, flying phalanger, foumart, fox, fox squirrel, gazelle, gemsbok, genet, giraffe, give away, glutton, gnu, gnu goat, goat, goat antelope, gopher, grizzly bear, ground squirrel, groundhog, guanaco, guinea pig, hamster, hare, harnessed antelope, hartebeest, hedgehog, heel, hippopotamus, hog, hood, hooligan, horse, hyena, hyrax, ibex, inform, inform against, inform on, informer, intrigant, intriguer, jackal, jackass, jackrabbit, jaguar, jaguarundi, jerboa, jerboa kangaroo, jerk, kaama, kangaroo, kangaroo mouse, kangaroo rat, karakul, kinkajou, kit fox, koala, lapin, leak, lemming, leopard, leopard cat, let down, let drop, let fall, let slip, lion, llama, louse, lynx, machinator, mammoth, mara, marmot, marten, mastodon, meanie, meerkat, mink, mole, mongoose, moose, mother, mouflon, mountain goat, mountain lion, mountain sheep, mouse, mule, mule deer, muntjac, musk deer, musk hog, musk-ox, muskrat, musquash, narc, nark, nilgai, nutria, ocelot, okapi, onager, oont, opossum, otter, ounce, ox, pack rat, painter, panda, pangolin, panther, peach, peccary, peludo, phalanger, pig, pill, pine mouse, platypus, plotter, pocket gopher, pocket mouse, pocket rat, polar bear, polar fox, polecat, porcupine, possum, pouched rat, poyou, prairie dog, prairie wolf, prick, pronghorn, pull out, puma, quisling, rabbit, raccoon, recreant, red deer, red squirrel, reindeer, renounce, repudiate, reveal a secret, rhinoceros, roe, roe deer, roebuck, run out on, runagate, sable, scab, schemer, scum, secede, sell out, serpent, serval, sheep, shit, shithead, shitheel, shrew, shrew mole, sika, silver fox, sing, skunk, sloth, snake, snitch, snitch on, snowshoe rabbit, spill, spill the beans, springbok, squeak, squeal, squirrel, stinkard, stinker, stoat, stool, strikebreaker, suslik, swamp rabbit, swine, switch, takin, talk, tamandua, tamarin, tapir, tarpan, tatou, tatou peba, tatouay, tattle, tattle on, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, tergiversate, tergiversator, testify against, tiger, tiger cat, timber wolf, timeserver, toad, traitor, treasonist, tree shrew, trimmer, turd, turn, turn informer, turnabout, turncoat, urus, vole, wallaby, warthog, water buffalo, waterbuck, weasel, wharf rat, whistler, white fox, wild ass, wild boar, wild goat, wild ox, wildcat, wildebeest, wolf, wolverine, wombat, wood rat, woodchuck, woolly mammoth, yak, zebra, zebu, zoril

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/r{t/}}

Etymology
From rat:, rotte:, from  ræt:, from  (cf. West Frisian rôt:, Dutch rat:, German dialect Ratz:), from  (cf. Welsh rhathu: ‘to grate, rasp’,  rodo:, rostrum: ‘beak, prow’, Middle Persian undefined: ‘to scrape, smooth’, Sanskrit undefined: ‘he gnaws, cuts’).

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu:
 * Albanian: miu i gjirizeve
 * Ankave:
 * Arabic: (fa’r), جرذ
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: arratoi
 * Belarusian: пацук (patsúk)
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: razh
 * Bulgarian: плъх (plǎx)
 * Catalan: rata ,
 * Cebuano: ilaga
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese: 老鼠 (lǎoshǔ), 鼠 (shǔ)
 * Chinese Characters: / 鼡 (shǔ)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: rat, bruine rat , rioolrat , zwarte rat
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: rott
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: rat, souris , surmulot , rat gris , rat d'égout , rat noir
 * Friulian: pantiane
 * Galician: rata
 * Georgian: ვირთხა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: ratto, ratta
 * Irish: francach dubh, luch francach, luchóg mhor,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 鼠 (ねずみ, nezumi) (also mouse), ラット (ratto)
 * Korean: 쥐 (jwi)
 * Ladin: roza
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:


 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian: ratwa, rata, wjelika myš
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: стаорец
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: എലി (eli)
 * Maltese:
 * Maori:
 * Navajo:
 * Northern Sami: roahttu
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: rat, garri
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romani: sobolako, sobolaika
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: ratun
 * Russian:
 * Sami: roahttu
 * Santali:
 * Sardinian: mus
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: пацов, штакор
 * Roman: pacov, štakor
 * Sinhala: ලොකු මීයා (loku miiyaa)
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: daga
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ఎలుక
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: пацюк (patsjuk), щур (ščur)
 * Upper Sorbian: wulka myš, šćura
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: llygoden fawr
 * West Frisian:
 * Wolof: kaña


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, , ,


 * Russian:

Verb

 * French: ,


 * Italian: cantare, spifferare, fare la spia

Anagrams

 * art, Art
 * RTA
 * tar

Noun

 * 1) rat

Synonyms

 * rata

-Danish-

Noun

 * 1) wheel, steering wheel

Noun

 * 1) rat

Noun

 * 1) rat
 * 2)  sweetheart
 * 3) scrooch

Etymology
From rat:, from  rat:, of  origin, from  *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with Old High German rato:, Old Saxon ratta:, Old English ræt:. More at.

Related terms

 * raton
 * rate
 * rat d'hôtel
 * rater

Anagrams

 * art

Noun

 * 1) rat

Noun

 * 1) rat animal

Descendants

 * French:

Noun

 * 1) blood

Noun

 * 1) war

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) rat or mouse

Etymology
From rat.

Synonyms

 * mukeis (eastern dialect)