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ratcatchers

ratcatchers is the plural of ratcatcher.

Meaning of ratcatcher

Noun

ratcatcher (plural ratcatchers)

  1. One who catches rats; particularly one who does so professionally.
  2. (UK) An insult, not widely used nowadays but made popular by William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet.

Questions about ratcatchers

What is ratcatchers the plural of?
Ratcatchers is the plural of ratcatcher.

Words near ratcatchers in the dictionary

  1. Ratboy
  2. Ratby
  3. ratcastle
  4. ratcastles
  5. ratcatcher
  6. ratcatchers
  7. ratcatching
  8. ratch
  9. Ratchaburi
  10. ratched
  11. Ratchel

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