sewer rat
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Any rat that lives in sewers.
Example Sentences
- "The black rat [...] became extinct in Britain following the Roman withdrawal, only to reappear in Norman times. Thereafter the black rat prospered - until the arrival of the larger brown rat (also known as the sewer rat or Norway rat), which reached Britain at about the time of the Hanoverian succession in the eighteenth century."