![]() Of these there are the following kinds: a black rat and a grey rat, a py-rat and a cu-rat. _-rat, "person who frequents _" (in earliest reference dock-rat) is from 1864. To smell a rat "to be put on the watch by suspicion as the cat by the scent of a rat to suspect danger" is from 1540s. Specific sense of "one who abandons his associates for personal advantage" (1620s) is from the belief that rats leave a ship about to sink or a house about to fall, and this led to the meaning "traitor, informant" (1902). (in surnames) to persons held to resemble rats or share some characteristic or quality with them. But these are simply larger and smaller species of the same genus, very closely related zoologically, and in the application of the two names to the many other species of the same genus all distinction between them is lost. Mouse, in the application of the names to animals everywhere parasitic with man, is obvious and familiar. Applied to rat-like species on other continents from 1580s. The common Middle English form was ratton, from augmented Old French form raton. Klein says there is no such connection and suggests a possible cognate in Greek rhine "file, rasp." Weekley connects the English noun and the Latin verb with a question mark and OED says it is "probable" that the rat word spread from Germanic to Romanic, but takes no position on further etymology. American Heritage and Tucker connect Old English ræt to Latin rodere and thus to PIE root *red- "to scrape, scratch, gnaw," source of rodent (q.v.). Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *rattus, but Weekley thinks this is of Germanic origin, "the animal having come from the East with the race-migrations" and the word passing thence to the Romanic languages. Ilene 'Trixie' Roth, welcome to Rat Fink TV The official channel of Rat Fink.If you dig Rat Fink and Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, and all the thin. In its range and uncertain origin, it is much like cat. Similar words are found in Celtic (Gaelic radan), Romanic (Medieval Latin ratus, Italian ratto, Spanish rata, Old French rat) and Germanic (Old Saxon ratta Middle Dutch ratte, Dutch rat German Ratte, dialectal Ratz Swedish råtta, Danish rotte) languages, but their connection to one another and the ultimate source of the word are unknown. From the Archives of Publisher Pete Millar."a rodent of some of the larger species of the genus Mus," late Old English ræt "rat," a word of uncertain origin. Rat Fink Vintage (1 - 60 of 578 results) Price () Shipping All Sellers OFFICIALLY LICENSED ED 'Big Daddy' Roth Rat Fink Oval W/ Rat Hot Rod Racer Patch (1. Top center has handwritten "Bottom" notation in red ink w/page number in black felt tip pen at lower right. Top margin has tiny cartoon of Pied Piper character leading row of hot rods w/Miller Publications stamp at left. A few missing words reveal some glue staining. Last panel has stat paste-overs to order Rat Finks of America shirts and decals. ![]() Millar has signed at bottom of this panel. ![]() ![]() He goes on to try to organize support while standing on soapboxes (marked w/Rat Finks of America club labels and another marked "Bury Goldwater") before vowing to organize the world while holding a small comb under his nose and wearing an "RF" armband in an obvious Hitler parody. Cartoon appeared as the bottom half of page 25 in DRAG Cartoons #5, published in 1964. Original Monster Art Rat Fink GTO Ed Big Daddy Roth 1966 Drag Arte. Strip is entitled The Trials And Tribulations Of A Rat Fink and features Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's iconic Rat Fink character bemoaning the lack of respect he receives. Rat Fink Ed Big Daddy Roth - Rat Fink Racing Team. Comic strip features five panels (w/additional sixth panel w/paste-over ordering information). DigiRods Rat Rod Racer American Hot Rod Cartoon Car Digital Art. 15x20" Millar Publishing artboard has pen and ink original art by Pete Millar (1929-2003), illustrator, cartoonist and drag racer known for his work w/CARtoons and DRAG Cartoons magazines. ![]()
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