DRAT 'EM!

  

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DRAT 'EM!

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Drat 'em! A variant of Od rotem! The first word is a minced form of the word God, as in "Od's blood!" "Od zounds!"=God's wounds, "Od's bodikins," etc. See Odd's. A correspondent in Notes and Queries suggests "[May] God out-root them!" but we have the words drattle and throttle (to choke) which would better account for the a and the o, and which are also imprecations. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DRAT 'EM!

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-!-a-d-e-m-r-t"

-2 letters: dreamt, marted.

-3 letters: armed, armet, dater, derat, derma, dream, madre, mated, mater, ramet, rated, tamed, tamer, tared, trade, tread.

-4 letters: dame, dare, dart, date, dear, derm, dram, drat, made, mare, mart, mate, mead, meat, meta, rate, read, ream, tame, tare, team, tear, term, trad, tram.

-5 letters: are, arm, art, ate, dam, ear, eat, era.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DRAT 'EM!


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 52 41 54      27 45 4D 21

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010010 01000001 01010100 00100000 00100111 01000101 01001101 00100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#32 &#39 &#69 &#77 &#33

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0041 0054      0027 0045 004D 0021

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

385235542939473

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