English Explanatory Dictionary

rat-licker

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who refuses to take preventative measures during a disease outbreak (especially the COVID-19 pandemic).

Word forms

rat-licker rat-lickers

Etymology

From the urban myth that people in the Middle Ages licked rats to ward off the bubonic plague.

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