ratty

1. (figuratively, informal)Examples: "We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bed-quilt off the bed, […] and just as we were leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg."; "The Marcher lord was still clad in his ratty black cloak and dented breastplate with its chipped enamel lightning."; "I was having exactly that thought on a ratty mock-leather couch in Islington."Synonyms: battered, tattered, tatty, torn, worn out

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3. (figuratively, informal)Examples: "He got bad, he got ratty, he would take it out on people around him. He was mean when it turned against him."Synonyms: annoyed, angry, aggravated, agitated, bothered, exasperated, frustrated, irritable