Wratch vs Wroth - What's the difference?
wratch | wroth |
(archaic)
*{{quote-book, year=1919, author=J. B. Salmond, title=My Man Sandy, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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=
, passage=Why, he's a praste, a Popish praste, that can't marry if he would, poor wratch ." }} Full of anger; wrathful.
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* 1793,
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
* 1936 , (Dale Carnegie), (How to Win Friends and Influence People) , Part 3, Chapter 4
As a noun wratch
is (archaic).As an adjective wroth is
full of anger; wrathful.wratch
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(en adjective)- But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth , and his countenance fell.
- And to be wroth with one we love,
- Doth work like madness in the brain.
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
- Business men are learning that it pays to be friendly to strikers. For example, when two thousand five hundred employees in the White Motor Company's plant struck for higher wages and a union shop, Robert F. Black, the president, didn't wax wroth and condemn, and threaten and talk of tyranny and Communists. He actually praised the strikers. He published an advertisement in the Cleveland papers, complimenting them on "the peaceful way in which they laid down their tools." [...]
