Drafted vs Dratted - What's the difference?
drafted | dratted |
(draft)
(nautical) of a certain depth required to float (said of a vessel); used comparatively with shallow, deep, etc.
(US) conscripted
(drat)
To damn or curse.
* 1882 , The Japan Daily Mail (page 1129)
* 1999 , Guy Murchie, ''The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science & Philosophy - Page 14
A cry of anger or frustration
As verbs the difference between drafted and dratted
is that drafted is past tense of draft while dratted is past tense of drat.As an adjective drafted
is of a certain depth required to float (said of a vessel); used comparatively with shallow, deep, etc.drafted
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)- A johnboat is a shallow drafted boat favored by fishermen.
dratted
English
Verb
(head)drat
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Verb
(dratt)- That dratted cat's been in the vegetable patch again.
- Whereat Mr. Fussy Fumer, gravely displeased, hastens home and writes an anonymous letter to Mrs. Gamp, who joins him in dratting the 'imperent upstart,' and denouncing the incompetence of the police.
- And should you be one of those conventional persons who thinks of parasites as abnormal or perhaps goes so far as to drat the varmints, you may be surprised to discover, as I did, that parasites live both inside and outside most organisms in all the kingdoms, which makes parasitism thoroughly normal