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ratshit en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /ˈɹæt.ʃɪt/

Etymology

From rat + shit.

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang, vulgar) Of very poor quality, badly substandard, useless; damaged or broken; unwell, exhausted.
   • For a moment Cashin thought that he would be sick, that he would spew over Hopgood. ‘You′re looking ratshit,’ said Hopgood. ‘Even more ratshit.’ 2005, Peter Temple, The Broken Shore, page 162:
   • "The letter is written by the dictator of a rat-shit little country." 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 125:
   • ‘That′s ratshit advice, Danny!’ Sammy, realising Bullnose was making a meal of it, cut in. 2009, Bryce Courtenay, The Story of Danny Dunn, published 2011, page 273:
   • In the morning I was ratshit, just a bundle of nerves. 1987, Stuart Rintoul, Ashes of Vietnam: Australian Voices, page 94:
   • When I was a little girl, my mother had this ratshit 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. 2006, John Ford Noonan, “The Raunchy Dame in the Chineses Raincoat”, in Glenn Young, editor, The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004, page 114:

Forms

ratshit en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /ˈɹæt.ʃɪt/

Etymology

From rat + shit.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:literal or figurative, slang, uncountable, vulgar) The excrement of a rat.
   • “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 a ratshit.” 1992, James P. Hogan, The Multiplex Man, published 2011, page 46:
   • He slammed the choke in again. ‘No, don′t you stall, you ratshit plane!’ 1987, Stephen King, The Tommyknockers, unnumbered page:
   • So they pulled the furniture away from the wall and found a pile of little dried ratshit pellets behind the dresser. 1995, Anne Cameron., Wedding Cakes, Rats and Rodeo Queens, page 61:
   • ‘Terry stop it! R—′s on, remember. If we get busted we′re ratshit. We′ll never see each other again.’ 1984, Gabrielle Carey, Just Us, page 106:
   • “Do you think they have ratshit in them?” Wynkyn asked. “Swan says most hamburgers have ratshit in them.” 1978, Larry McMurtry, Somebody′s Darling, published 2002, page 228:
2. (Australia, slang, uncountable, vulgar) Nonsense, bullshit.
   • He also said that most of the kids at school were full of ratshit and that only one or two sheilas made the place any better than buggery. 1987, Janette Turner Hospital, After Long Absence: Dislocations, page 205:
   • Kerin, one of the most pro-development Ministers, told his colleagues: ‘The EIS is ratshit and the guidelines are laughable’. 2006, William J. Lines, Patriots: Defending Australia′s Natural Heritage, page 257:
   • 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 could really do something at last is going to be proved to be so much ratshit? Do you see why self-determination that isn′t really real is so much ratshit?

Deriveds

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Translations (4)

de Rattenkacke (vulgar: excrement of a rat) · fi rotanpaska (vulgar: excrement of a rat) · de Rattenscheiße (vulgar: excrement of a rat) · pl gówno szczura (vulgar: excrement of a rat)