different between damage vs ratshit

English

Etymology

From Middle English damage, from Old French damage (Modern French dommage), from Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæm?d?/
• Rhymes: -æm?d?
• Hyphenation: dam?age

Noun

damage (countable and uncountable, plural damages)

1. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

   The storm did a lot of damage to the area.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Friendship

     Great errors and absurdities many {{..}}commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.

2. (slang) Cost or expense.

   "What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.

Usage notes

Currently it is only used as an uncountable noun, except in the plural. There are few examples of countable (singular) use.

Related terms

• damn
• indemnity

Translations

Verb

damage (third-person singular simple present damages, present participle damaging, simple past and past participle damaged)

1. (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

   Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.

   Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.

   • 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 5:

     The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Augu?t, 1712.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To undergo damage.

Derived terms

• undamaged

Translations

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dampnage, dammage, domage, damege

Etymology

From Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnaticum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dam?a?d?(?)/, /d?m?a?d?(?)/, /?damad?(?)/

Noun

damage (plural damages)

1. damage, harm, injury
2. loss (of reputation, etc.)
3. (rare) disability, weakness
4. (law, often in the plural) damages (compensation for loss)

Related terms

• damagen

Descendants

• English: damage
• Scots: dammish

References

• “dam??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum. Cognate with Old Occitan damnatge.

Noun

damage m (oblique plural damages, nominative singular damages, nominative plural damage)

1. damage
2. injury, hurt, insult

Related terms

• damagier

Descendants

• French: dommage
• Norman: dommage
• ? Middle English: damage, dampnage, dammage, domage, damege
  • English: damage
  • Scots: dammish
• ? Irish: damáiste
• ? Sicilian: damaggiu

English

Etymology

rat +? shit

Pronunciation

Noun

ratshit (uncountable)

1. (vulgar, literally, also used figuratively) The excrement of a rat.
   • 1978, Larry McMurtry, Somebody?s Darling, 2002, page 228,

     “Do you think they have ratshit in them?” Wynkyn asked. “Swan says most hamburgers have ratshit in them.”

   • 1984, Gabrielle Carey, Just Us, page 106,

     ‘Terry stop it! R—?s on, remember. If we get busted we?re ratshit. We?ll never see each other again.’

   • 1987, Stephen King, The Tommyknockers, unnumbered page,

     He slammed the choke in again. ‘No, don?t you stall, you ratshit plane!’

   • 1992, James P. Hogan, The Multiplex Man, 2011, page 46,

     “Aw, who cares? It?s all going to hell anyway. You have your turn, eat, get drunk, screw; and fifty years from now none of it?ll matter a ratshit.”

   • 1995, Anne Cameron. Wedding Cakes, Rats and Rodeo Queens, page 61,

     So they pulled the furniture away from the wall and found a pile of little dried ratshit pellets behind the dresser.

2. (Australia, vulgar, slang) Nonsense, bullshit.
   • 1987, Janette Turner Hospital, After Long Absence, Dislocations, page 205,

     He also said that most of the kids at school were full of ratshit and that only one or two sheilas made the place any better than buggery.

   • 1995, Irene Moores, Arthur Murray, Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee, Voices of Aboriginal Australia: Past, Present, Future, page 49,

     Do you see, Mr Bryant, why your old dream of getting to where you could really do something at last is going to be proved to be so much ratshit? Do you see why self-determination that isn?t really real is so much ratshit?

   • 2006, William J. Lines, Patriots: Defending Australia?s Natural Heritage, page 257,

     Kerin, one of the most pro-development Ministers, told his colleagues: ‘The EIS is ratshit and the guidelines are laughable’.

Derived terms

• go to ratshit

Adjective

ratshit (comparative more ratshit, superlative most ratshit)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) Of very poor quality, badly substandard, useless; damaged or broken; unwell, exhausted.
   • 1987, Stuart Rintoul, Ashes of Vietnam: Australian Voices, page 94,

     In the morning I was ratshit, just a bundle of nerves.

   • 2005, Peter Temple, The Broken Shore, page 162,

     For a moment Cashin thought that he would be sick, that he would spew over Hopgood.

     ‘You?re looking ratshit,’ said Hopgood. ‘Even more ratshit.’

   • 2006, John Ford Noonan, The Raunchy Dame in the Chineses Raincoat, Glenn Young (editor), The Best American Short Plays 2003-2004, page 114,

     When I was a little girl, my mother had this ratshit recorder, reel to reel, there were no cassettes then,... anyway, when I was lonely or hurt or scared, she'd play it for me. It was THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY.

   • 2009, Bryce Courtenay, The Story of Danny Dunn, 2011, page 273,

     ‘That?s ratshit advice, Danny!’ Sammy, realising Bullnose was making a meal of it, cut in.

Anagrams

• athirst, rattish, tartish, tirthas