Rats - English meaning

noun

An unpleasant or despicable person.

Usage examples:

He lied to me, the bastard!

adjective

(of a thing) no longer in its pure or original form; debased.

Usage examples:

A bastard darwinism

noun

An unpleasant person

Usage examples:

He was a bastard to his wife., you lied to me, you bastard!, humorous you won again? you lucky bast…

noun

An animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one.

Usage examples:

A wild beast

noun

A wild animal

noun

A destructive wave of highly compressed air spreading outwards from an explosion.

Usage examples:

They were thrown backwards by the blast

verb

Blow up or break apart (something solid) with explosives.

Usage examples:

The school was blasted by an explosion

exclamation

Expressing annoyance.

Usage examples:

‘blast! the car won't start!’

verb

Take the trouble to do something.

Usage examples:

Scientists rarely bother with such niceties

noun

Effort, trouble, or difficulty.

Usage examples:

He saved me the bother of having to come up with a speech

exclamation

Used to express mild irritation or impatience.

Usage examples:

‘bother!’ she muttered

noun

Effort, worry, or difficulty; bother.

Usage examples:

He has caused us a deal of unnecessary botheration

exclamation

Used to express mild irritation or annoyance.

Usage examples:

The wind caught me a fearful buffet-and-a-half as i stepped out of the door, causing me to drop one…

exclamation

An expression of anger

Usage examples:

Oh botheration! i can't find my keys.

noun

A dishonourable man.

Usage examples:

He is nothing but a fortune-seeking bounder

noun

A man who behaves badly or in a way that is not moral, especially in his relationships with women

noun

A vagrant.

Usage examples:

Bums had been known to wander up to their door and ask for a sandwich

verb

Get by asking or begging.

Usage examples:

They tried to bum money off us

adjective

Of poor quality; bad or wrong.

Usage examples:

Not one bum note was played

noun

A man who behaves dishonourably, especially towards a woman.

Usage examples:

Her adulterous cad of a husband

abbreviation

Computer-aided design.

noun

Abbreviation for computer-aided design; computer-assisted design: the use of computers to help design products

Usage examples:

Cad software/technology, an office worker is now using a cad system to plot production process flow…

verb

Cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by not according with their expectations.

Usage examples:

The inflation figure confounded economic analysts

exclamation

Used to express anger or annoyance.

Usage examples:

Oh confound it, where is the thing?

verb

Move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed.

Usage examples:

He crept downstairs, hardly making any noise

noun

A detestable person.

Usage examples:

I thought he was a nasty little creep

verb

Move slowly

verb

(in christian belief) be condemned by god to suffer eternal punishment in hell.

Usage examples:

Be forever damned with lucifer

exclamation

Expressing anger or frustration.

Usage examples:

Damn! i completely forgot!

adjective

Used to emphasize or express anger or frustration with someone or something.

Usage examples:

Turn that damn thing off!

noun

Condemnation to eternal punishment in hell.

Usage examples:

Sins that risk eternal damnation

exclamation

Expressing anger or frustration.

Usage examples:

Damnation, he got away.

verb

Run or travel somewhere in a great hurry.

Usage examples:

I dashed into the garden

exclamation

Used to express mild annoyance.

Usage examples:

Dash it all, i am in charge

noun

An act of running somewhere suddenly and hastily.

Usage examples:

She made a dash for the door

noun

A wild or half-domesticated dog with a sandy-coloured coat, found in australia.

Usage examples:

Because they prey on calves and sheep, dingoes and wild dogs are viewed as a threat to livestock.

verb

Behave in a cowardly manner.

Usage examples:

He dingoed out because he did not have the nerve

noun

A type of wild dog found in australia

noun

A domesticated carnivorous mammal that typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractable claws, and a barking, howling, or whining voice.

Usage examples:

‘all dogs have an intense sense of smell, and every dog likes to sniff,’ smith said.

verb

Follow (someone) closely and persistently.

Usage examples:

Photographers seemed to dog her every step

noun

A canine domesticated by man since prehistoric times

exclamation

A mild expression of annoyance or irritation.

Usage examples:

‘drat!’ said mitchell, kicking the fence

exclamation

Used when you are slightly annoyed

Usage examples:

Oh drat! i don't have her phone number!

verb

Turn over with a sudden quick movement.

Usage examples:

The plane flipped over and then exploded

noun

A sudden quick movement.

Usage examples:

She dismissed his qualms with a flip of her hand

adjective

Glib or flippant.

Usage examples:

He couldn't get away with flip, funny conversation

exclamation

Expressing surprise, frustration, or dismay.

Usage examples:

Oh heck, i can't for the life of me remember

exclamation

An expression of annoyance or surprise, or a way of adding emphasis to a statement or question; hell

Usage examples:

Where the heck have you been?

noun

The back part of the human foot below the ankle.

Usage examples:

Knees are bent and held in front of the chest, with the heels positioned below the hips.

verb

Fit or renew a heel on (a shoe or boot).

Usage examples:

They were soling and heeling heavy working boots

exclamation

A command to a dog to walk close behind its owner.

Usage examples:

‘heel’ i said and rusty obeyed.

noun

A place regarded in various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, often traditionally depicted as a place of perpetual fire beneath the earth where the wicked are punished after death.

Usage examples:

Irreligious children were assumed to have passed straight to the eternal fires of hell

exclamation

Used for emphasis or to express anger, contempt, or surprise.

Usage examples:

Oh, hell—where will this all end?

noun

(in some religions) the place where some people are believed to go after death to be punished forever for the bad things they have done

Usage examples:

Holidays are hell for me., we went through hell during the flood (= had an extremely bad experience…

noun

Either of two small wingless parasitic insects that live on the skin of mammals and birds.

Usage examples:

Head lice are insects living on the human scalp and feeding on blood.

verb

Remove lice from.

Usage examples:

They were lousing each other; and it surprised us that they did not discontinue their work + as we …

noun

A small insect that lives on the bodies of people and animals

noun

People or activities characterized as being disreputable and often criminal.

Usage examples:

Crackheads, loafers, and general nineties low life

noun

Someone of bad character

noun

An omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal with sparse bristly hair and a flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept for its meat.

Usage examples:

With the advent of farming in the neolithic, a number of animal species were domesticated, starting…

verb

Gorge oneself with food.

Usage examples:

He'd pigged himself on the last of the food

noun

Domestic swine

noun

A dishonest or unprincipled man.

Usage examples:

You are a rogue and an embezzler

verb

Remove inferior or defective plants or seedlings from (a crop).

Usage examples:

The sowing has to be rogued to remove aberrant seedlings

noun

A person, organization, or country that does not behave in the usual or acceptable way

Usage examples:

Buzzy’s a fun-loving teenage rogue., a rogue employee might tap into the computer.

noun

A cruel, mean, or unkind person.

Usage examples:

Rosemary had decided that all men were rotters

noun

Someone who is very unpleasant or does very unpleasant things

noun

A dishonest or unscrupulous person; a rogue.

Usage examples:

That scoundrel sets a bad example for the other young men

noun

A rude word for a very unpleasant person who has done something dishonest or unacceptable

noun

Faeces.

verb

Expel faeces from the body.

exclamation

An exclamation of disgust, anger, or annoyance.

verb

Kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow.

Usage examples:

He was shot in the leg during an armed robbery

noun

A young branch or sucker springing from the main stock of a tree or other plant.

Usage examples:

He nipped off the new shoots that grew where the leaves joined the stems

exclamation

Variant spelling of chute1.

noun

An outer covering such as a husk or pod, especially the husk of an ear of maize.

Usage examples:

Regional fuels like steam from the deep earth or excess corn shucks will enter custom-designed micr…

verb

Remove the shucks from maize or shellfish.

Usage examples:

Shuck and drain the oysters

exclamation

Used to express surprise, regret, irritation, or, in response to praise, self-deprecation.

Usage examples:

‘thank you for getting it.’ ‘oh, shucks, it was nothing.’

noun

A cat-sized american mammal of the weasel family, with distinctive black-and-white striped fur. when threatened it squirts a fine spray of foul-smelling irritant liquid from its anal glands towards its attacker.

Usage examples:

The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badge…

verb

Short for skunkweed.

noun

A small, furry, black-and-white animal with a large tail, which makes a strong, unpleasant smell as a defense when it is attacked

noun

An untrustworthy or cunning person.

Usage examples:

Brennan glided to power as general secretary of his party during the sleeveen taoiseachship of jack…

noun

A long limbless reptile which has no eyelids, a short tail, and jaws that are capable of considerable extension. some snakes have a venomous bite.

Usage examples:

The copperhead, a venomous snake, is dangerous, but its bite is rarely life-threatening to healthy …

verb

Move or extend with the twisting motion of a snake.

Usage examples:

A rope snaked down

noun

An animal with a long, cylindrical body and no legs

Usage examples:

People spent hours waiting in lines that snaked around the stadium to get tickets.

noun

A sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, especially sugar cane and sugar beet, consisting essentially of sucrose, and used as a sweetener in food and drink.

Usage examples:

A spoonful of sugar

verb

Used as a euphemism for ‘shit’.

Usage examples:

‘oh sugar!’ cried sally

noun

A sweet substance obtained esp. from particular plants and used to make food and drinks sweet

noun

A pig.

Usage examples:

A contagious viral disease of animals that primarily affects swine

noun

A pig, esp. when raised for food

Usage examples:

He can be such a swine sometimes.

exclamation

Used to express exasperation, frustration, or incredulity.

Usage examples:

Tarnation! if teddy had been elected we'd never have come to this!

noun

Used to express anger or to add emphasis, to avoid saying "damnation"

Usage examples:

What in tarnation is that?, i sure as tarnation ain't lookin' for no wife.

noun

A small, slender carnivorous mammal related to, but smaller than, the stoat.

Usage examples:

A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one …

verb

Achieve something by use of cunning or deceit.

Usage examples:

She suspects me of trying to weasel my way into his affections

noun

A small mammal with reddish brown fur and a long body, which feeds on small animals such as mice and birds

noun

An unfortunate or unhappy person.

Usage examples:

Can the poor wretch's corpse tell us anything?

noun

Someone who has suffered a lot and deserves sympathy

Usage examples:

The poor wretches had no chance to survive.