Drat vs Derat - What's the difference?
drat | derat |
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 a noun drat
is wire (thin thread of metal).As a verb derat is
to remove the rats from something.drat
English
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