rats
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹæts/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æts
Noun
[edit]rats
Interjection
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- (informal) Expression of annoyance or disgust; damn, darn. [from 1886]
- (informal) Expression of disbelief.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "It's damned clever - fair puzzles 'em every time. How d'ye get them?" "I tell you I don't. It's outside myself." "Rats! You can tell me, Tom. I'm Griffiths, the safe man."
Translations
[edit]damn, darn
Verb
[edit]rats
- third-person singular simple present indicative of rat
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]- tars, sart, ARTS, arts., tsar, tars-, ARTs, Sart, srat, Srta., star, RAST, Arts, stra., Srta, arts, astr-, TSRA, RTAs, Star, TRAs
Catalan
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[edit]rats
Danish
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[edit]rats n
Dutch
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[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]rats m (uncountable)
- (dated) A dish consisting of a hodgepodge of (leftover) vegetables and mashed potatoes, associated with soldiers.
- Synonym: hutspot
Derived terms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]rats m
Anagrams
[edit]Latgalian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Baltic *retas. Cognates include Latvian rets and Lithuanian retas.
Pronunciation
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[edit]rats
Declension
[edit]Indefinite declension of rats (type 1 adjective)
Definite declension of rats (type 1 adjective)
References
[edit]- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN
Latvian
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Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *ret(h), *rot(h). Cognates include Lithuanian rãtas (“wheel”), Sanskrit रथ (ratha, “chariot”), Old High German rad (“wheel”) (German Rad (“wheel”)), Latin rota (“wheel”) (Portuguese roda, Spanish rueda, Italian ruota, Romanian roată, French roue), Albanian rreth (“hoop, circle, wheel rim”).[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]rats m (1st declension)
- wheel (circular device that rotates on its axis)
- stūres rats ― steering wheel
- dzirnavu rats ― millwheel
- spara rats, spararats ― flywheel
- ķēdes pārvada rats ― chain wheel
- laimes rats ― the wheel of fortune
- pagriezt atpakaļ , apturēt vēstures ratu ― to turn back, to stop the wheel of history
- (only plural) cart, carriage (small wheeled vehicle drawn by animals)
- jūgt zirgu ratos ― to harness a horse to a cart
- vienjūga, divjūga rati ― a one-, a two-horse cart or carriage
- smagie rati ― heavy cart
- rati ar gumijas riteņiem ― a cart with rubber wheels
Declension
[edit]Declension of rats (1st declension)
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “rats”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Volapük
[edit]Noun
[edit]rats
- nominative plural of rat
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