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. To damn or curse
- interj. A cry of anger or frustration
Etymologies
- Short for God rot.
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...
sionnach God rot it. Feb 14, 2007