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Dratted
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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verb (used with object)
1.
to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
interjection
2.
(used to express mild disgust, disappointment, or the like): Drat, there goes another button off my shirt.
Origin:
1805–15; alteration of (o)d rot God rot (i.e., may God rot him, her, it)
1805–15; alteration of (o)d rot God rot (i.e., may God rot him, her, it)
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Word Origin & History
drat
1815, disguised form of exclamation God rot (something or someone).
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