consarned
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[edit]Verb
[edit]consarned
- simple past and past participle of consarn
- 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte[1]:
- "If Mr. Woods has gone into the hands of the Injins, in his church shirt," rejoined the overseer, "his case is hopeless, so far as captivity is consarned."
Adjective
[edit]consarned (not comparable)
- (dialectal) darn; pestilent
- 1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell at Yale[2]:
- I believe you are one of them consarned student fellers."
Adverb
[edit]consarned (not comparable)
- (dialectal) darned; quite
- 1902, James A. Braden, Far Past the Frontier[3]:
- It looks consarned strange, that's what I say!