Meanings
- uncountableThe quality or state of being a rat.
If we let them deal thus with our Capo—why, then there is neither honesty, rathood nor good fellowship in us.
2004, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly, →ISBN2 more examples
Suddenly there fell a great silence, a black darkness, an infinite tranquillity, and Jerome Searing, perfectly conscious of his rathood, and well assured of the trap that he was in, remembering all and nowise alarmed, again opened his eyes to reconnoitre, to note the strength of his enemy, to plan his defense.
1891, Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Soldiers and CiviliansAgain the woman comes up short—a Renaissance witch, it seems, could not even aspire to mimetic rathood, but instead had to content herself with a curtailed or foreshortened version of that condition.
2008, Marjorie Garber, William R Kenan Jr, Profiling Shakespeare, →ISBN, page 98
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rathood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rathood
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