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Drat vs Doat - What's the difference?

drat | doat |

As a noun drat

is wire (thin thread of metal).

As a verb doat is

.

drat

English

Verb

(dratt)
  • To damn or curse.
    • That dratted cat's been in the vegetable patch again.
  • * 1882 , The Japan Daily Mail (page 1129)
    • 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.
  • * 1999 , Guy Murchie, ''The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science & Philosophy - Page 14
    • 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

    Interjection

  • A cry of anger or frustration

    • Synonyms

    * crap! * damn! * goddammit!

    Anagrams

    * ----

    doat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1676, author=Aphra Behn, title=The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III, chapter=The Town-Fop, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take him for. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Robert Burns, title=Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns, chapter=Song, Composed in Spring, edition= citation
    • , passage=--And maun I still on Menie doat , And bear the scorn that's in her e'e? }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=William Hazlitt, title=The Spirit of the Age, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements. }}

    Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • finger

    • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)

    Derived terms

    * * ((l), ((l)) * ((l), (l)) * (l) * * ()

    See also

    * ) * (l) ((l), (l)) * (l) ((l), (l)) * (l) ((l), (l)) * ) * (l) ((l), (l))