Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.

Dutch: bruine rat, rat
Polish: szczur

Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.

synonyms: blackleg, scab, strikebreaker.

Roget 607: change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose; afterthought.    tergiversation, recantation; palinode, palinody^†; renunciation; abjuration^†, abjurement; defection etc. (relinquishment) 624; going over etc. v.; apostasy; retraction, retractation^†; withdrawal; disavowal etc. (negation) 536; revocation, revokement^†; reversal; repentance etc. 950; redintegratio amoris [Lat.].    coquetry; vacillation etc. 605; backsliding; volte-face [Fr.].    turn coat, turn tippet^†; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish [U.S.], scab [Slang], mugwump [U.S.], recidivist.    time server, time pleaser^†; timist^†, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter^†; weathercock etc. (changeable) 149; Janus.    ... show more

Dutch: stakingsbreker

A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible:
— Kill the rat.

synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot ... show more.

Dutch: snertvent, rioolrat, stinker, bietser, boef, booswicht, element, galgeaas, galgebrok, galgenaas, gannef, goorlap, klaploper, kwaaddoener, schurk, slechterik, smeerkees, smeerpoets, snoodaard, spitsboef, taddik, toddik, uitvreter, viespeuk, viezerik, vuilik, vuilpeuk, vuilpoes, zwijnjak ... show more

One who reveals confidential information in return for money.

synonyms: betrayer, blabber, informer, squealer.

Dutch: informant, aanbrenger, aangever, klikker, klikspaan, sycofant, tipgever, verklikker, verlinker

A pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure.

Desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage.

Roget 607: change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from etc. (relinquish) 624; waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack.    apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind etc. (abrogate) 756; recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish [U.S.], crawl [U.S.].    draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf etc. (repent) 950.    trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux [Fr.]; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows.    ... show more

Employ scabs or strike breakers in.

Take the place of work of someone on strike.

synonyms: blackleg, fink, scab.

Give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat.

Catch rats, especially with dogs.

Give away information about somebody.

synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on.

Roget 529: disclose, discover, dismask^†; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose; open, open up; bare, bring to light.    divulge, reveal, break; squeal [Coll.], tattle [Coll.], sing [Coll.], rat [Coll.], snitch [Coll.]; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell etc. (inform) 527; breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out etc. (make manifest) 525; make public etc. 531; unriddle etc. (find out) 480.1; split.    acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind [Fr.]; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's evidence, Queen's evidence; acknowledge the corn [U.S.].    raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive^†, unbeguile^†; disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of; d_esillusionner.    be disclosed &c.; transpire, come to light; come in sight etc. (be visible) 446; become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover itself &c.; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.    ... show more

Dutch: misleiden, aangeven, verklikken, bedriegen, verklappen, verlullen, verraden