A Southern word, derived from the former. It is an expletive, and means very, exceeding, etc.
I never was so dratted mad; for the fellows were coming in in gangs, and beginnin' to ca]l for me to come out and take the command.--Maj. Jones's Courtship, p. 22.
It was about eleven o'clock before the dratted thing came along.--Ibid.
You may thank me that you have got eyes left in yer dratted head to look for yer blind horse.--Chronicles of Pineville, p. 108.