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Definition of Dratted
1. drat [v] - See also: drat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dratted
Literary usage of Dratted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"From drat Americans have derived the epithet dratted. "This is a dratted piece
of business, and I wish we were safely out of it. ..."
2. Early Times in Texas by John Crittenden Duval (1892)
"... onslaught on the eatables, gave it as his deliberate opinion that "dis Uvalde
canon would be a fust rate place to live in ef it wan't fur dem dratted ..."
3. The Cruiser: A Quarterly Magazine of Cruising Tales and Adventures (1907)
"... bein' thet ther jib wuz fust inboard 'nd then off ag'in, 'nd thet dratted
thing hed cotch ther little anker 'nd heaved it clar 'crost ther deck, ..."
4. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"dratted; Punch, 1884, Vol. II (Vol. 87), 189": "Unless I put 'em in rooms that
don't look out on his dratted shop". Compare Dickens, Nickleby, I, ch. ..."
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