ratbag
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of ratbag
C20: from rat + bag
Example Sentences
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The ratbag attitude runs deep.
From The Guardian
Under very different circumstances, two women return to the coastal resort where they grew up, 17 years on from accusations that they murdered their duplicitous ratbag schoolteacher.
From The Guardian
Then came divorce from Uma Thurman, amid rumours of an affair with the couple's nanny, and vilification by the tabloids as Public Ratbag No 1.
From The Guardian
If he's a ratbag, he's one of our ratbags.
From BBC
"Jules wasn't a ratbag or anything," one of his classmates from the public school in Goolmangar, Sharon Graham, told the Australian on Dec. 11.
From Time
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