battered vs ratty

battered

adj
  • Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered. 

  • Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up. 

  • Coated with batter (noun). 

ratty

adj
  • In poor condition or repair. 

  • Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable. 

  • Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike. 

  • Infested with rats. 

  • Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with. 

noun
  • Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”) 

How often have the words battered and ratty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )