Dray vs Drat - What's the difference?
dray | drat |
A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
* 1900 , , Chapter I,
A kind of sledge or sled.
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 nouns the difference between dray and drat
is that dray is a low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads or dray can be variant spelling of drey , the nest of a squirrel while drat is wire (thin thread of metal).dray
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Etymology 1
(etyl) draye, 1325-1375. Compare .Noun
(en noun)- Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire
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Etymology 2
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* * English terms with unknown etymologiesdrat
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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