Dret vs Drat - What's the difference?
dret | drat |
; (drite)
----
(obsolete) To defecate.
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 verb dret
is ; (drite).As a noun drat is
wire (thin thread of metal).dret
English
Verb
(head)drite
English
Alternative forms
* dryteVerb
References
* “drite, v. ]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989
Anagrams
* * ----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
