ratchetness

English

Etymology

ratchet +‎ -ness

Noun

ratchetness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being ratchet.
   • 2015 October 6, Lola Okolosie, “Cookie in Empire is a badass and a models of feminist disrespectability”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The character’s appeal is universal though because she represents a feminist politics of disrespectability (what black American feminists call ratchetness) that has no time for prim notions of femininity as demure, quiet and self-effacing.