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Meaning of ratton | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈɹatən

Definitions

A rat.

Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland

Examples

““A Yorkshire burr,” he affirmed, “was as much better than a Cockney’s lisp, as a bull's bellow than a ratton’s squeak.””
“To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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