Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express annoyance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An obsolete contracted form of dreadeth (dredeth), third person singular indicative present of dread.
- An expletive expressive of mild indignation or annoyance, similar to plague on, plague take, bother: as, drat that child!
Wiktionary
- v. transitive and intransitive To damn or curse
- interj. A cry of anger or frustration
Etymologies
- An aphetism of od-rat (‘God rot’) as a minced oath. (Wiktionary)
- Short for God rot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Researchers found that one in 15 of the people questioned had never used the word drat and half didn't know what a cad was.”
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“And the Duchesses, 'drat 'em, may go and be blowed;”
“Remember that debacle about LeGuin's book Powers, and Liar by ... oh drat, I can't remember her name.”
“And he knew she would keep them, too, drat him, if he asked it.”
“I think people got bored or annoyed with it, so no more [drat, had a good another coming on woodchucks] But I feel like I have to back up what the answers were, so here it is with summary.”
“In all the other cases, we blame the way we set up the goal (oh, drat, I told others ... or, oh, drat, I didn't tell enough of others).”
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“But I know too well what a sudden upswing in site traffic means. (drat and i was really hoping for an Andromeda HH, too …) Best of luck to the pair of you.”
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“Bert is in drat! and dismissed to the green room, likewise Laura, Kimberly and Bryce.”
“Oh drat, of all the books I had to miss discussing with the Slaves, this one would be it.”
“Yes | No | Report from Mike Diehl wrote 14 weeks 1 day ago drat too short ...”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drat’.
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Rats
rats, rat, tree-rat, pilori-rat, prorate, pro rata, Ratso Rizzo, ratfink, rat pack, Rat Pack, Rats!, rat race and 157 more...
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Yoinks, Zoinks, & Zounds!
A collection of interjections and verbal ejaculations.
yoinks, zoinks, zounds, crikey, lawsy, oomph, unf, shazbot, lordy, mox nix, cosmic, no dice and 30 more...
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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zanshin's Words
gargoyle, ennui, paradigm, aardvark, verisimilitude, ghoti, tenacity, nescience, guillemet, squonk, maven, moxie and 210 more...
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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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A little of the old Ultra-Violence
Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity made flesh- downright horrorshow selections of vocabulary from Nadsat, the Russian-influenced slang of the raping and face-stomping delinquents of Burgess's A Clockwork ...
appypolly loggy, baboochka, baddiwad, banda, bezoomy, bitva, bog, bolnoy, bolshy, bratchny, bratty, britva and 186 more...
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slo: nižje pogovorno v SSKJ
Words listed as "low colloquial" in Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika (Dictionary of Standard Slovene).
afna, afnati se, arcnija, bolovati, briht, britof, cagati, cagav, cagavec, cajg, cenkati se, �?orav and 338 more...
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minced oaths
expostulations which originated as euphemisms for a stronger, socially unsanctioned, word or expression
strewth, zounds, land sakes, jiminy cricket, gorblimey, drat, begorrah, cripes, doggone it, gadzooks, odds bodkins, sacre bleu and 78 more...
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jon.dobb's Words
drat, ridiculous, pervasive, chicory, dapple, duskiness, haggardly, exuberant, conduce, neat, alas, furtively and 35 more...
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Watch Your Language, Young Man
Ahh, euphemisms. Every schoolkid's favorite pastime. They sound so naughty, but you can't really get in trouble for using them, can you?
darn, dang, shoot, shucks, flip, geez, gee whiz, golly, son of a gun, crud, shyster, holy schnikes and 58 more...
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Sissyphus's Words
contrarian, sycophantic, cacaphonous, avuncular, drat, philology, apropos, mellifluous, vitriolic, funambulist, orts, whence
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ErinHodge's Words
yak, drat, panegyric, flourish, theoretically, snap, soliloquy, rustle, rebellious, ignominiously, romping, mumble and 4 more...
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Alternatives
Fussbudget, drat, humbug, nonsense, rubbish, applesauce, hogwash, horsefeathers
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maledicta, oaths, and exclamations
odd's bobs, stuff and nonsense, gee willikers, zounds, egad, poppycock, drat
Tweets
Looking for tweets for drat.
sionnach God rot it. Feb 14, 2007