rater

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French word rater comes from Frankish *rato, Frankish *ratt, and later Old French rat (Rat (rodent).)

*rato (Frankish)

*ratt (Frankish)

rat (Old French)

Rat (rodent).

rat (French)

(informal) sweetheart. Rat. Scrooch.

prendre un rat (French)

rater (French)

(intransitive) to fail. (transitive) to miss (an event or a thing). (transitive, informal) to screw up; to mess up.

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