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rattick

rattick verb: to shake, rattle, knock about; to be rickety.

Verb

rattick (third-person singular simple present ratticks, present participle ratticking, simple past and past participle ratticked)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) To shake, rattle, knock about; to be rickety.
    • The windows rattick whenever the wind blows hard.

Forms of rattick

third-person singular presentratticks
present participleratticking
past participleratticked
pastratticked
alternative formrattik

Origin of rattick

Uncertain. Perhaps a dissimilation of rattle. Alternatively, perhaps from Old English *hratecian (“to rattle”), from Old English hratian (“to quicken, hasten”) + -(e)cian (frequentative suffix).

Questions about rattick

What does rattick mean?
Rattick means to shake, rattle, knock about; to be rickety.
What part of speech is rattick?
Rattick is a verb.
What is the past tense of rattick?
The past tense of rattick is ratticked.

Words near rattick in the dictionary

  1. rattery
  2. rattes
  3. ratti
  4. ratticide
  5. ratticides
  6. rattick
  7. rattie
  8. rattier
  9. ratties
  10. rattiest
  11. Rattigan

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