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Wratch vs Wrath - What's the difference?

wratch | wrath |

As nouns the difference between wratch and wrath

is that wratch is (archaic) while wrath is great anger.

As an adjective wrath is

(rare) wrathful; very angry.

As a verb wrath is

(obsolete) to anger; to enrage.

wratch

English

Noun

(es)
  • (archaic)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1919, author=J. B. Salmond, title=My Man Sandy, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I canna be bathered wi' the chatterin', fykie, kyowowin' little wratch . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=William Barnes, title=Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Noo soul to sheaere The trials the poor wratch must bear. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Ian Maclaren, title=Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=He said he wes up for a walk an' juist dropped in, the wratch .' }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1868, author=Alexander Hislop, title=The Proverbs of Scotland, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="Little Andrew, the wratch , has been makin' a totum wi' his faither's ae razor; an' the pair man's trying to shave himsel yonder, an' girnan like a sheep's head on the tangs." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1855, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Westward Ho!, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Why, he's a praste, a Popish praste, that can't marry if he would, poor wratch ." }}

    wrath

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Great anger.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
  • (rare) Punishment.
  • * Bible, (w) xiii. 4
  • A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
  • (trading card games, slang) A single card that is able to destroy many creatures.
  • Synonyms

    * (great anger) fury, ire

    Derived terms

    * grapes of wrath * wrathful

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Wrathful; very angry.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To anger; to enrage.
  • * (Chaucer)
  • * (Piers Plowman)
  • (Webster 1913)