dammit

English

Etymology

Alteration of damn it

Interjection

dammit

1. Used to express anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:dammit

Translations

expression of anger or disappointment

• Armenian: գրո՛ղը տանի (hy) (grołə tani)
• Belarusian: праклён (be) (práklon)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 該死 (cmn), 该死 (cmn) (gāisǐ)

• Dutch: verdomme (nl)
• Esperanto: damne (eo), aĉ (eo)
• Finnish: pahus (fi), hemmetti (fi), hitto vie (fi)
• French: merde (fr)
• German: verdammt (de), verdammt noch mal (de)
• Italian: merda (it), cazzo (it), dannazione (it), cavolo (it), cribbio (it)
• Japanese: しまった (ja) (shimatta), くそ (ja) (kuso)

• Latvian: sasodīts (lv)
• Limburgish: noondemieljaar (li)
• Persian: لعنتی (fa) (la'nati)
• Polish: kurde (pl), kuźwa (pl), cholera (pl), w mordę jeża (pl)
• Portuguese: porra (pt), merda (pt)
• Romanian: la naiba! (ro)
• Russian: чёрт побери (ru) (čort poberí), чёрт возьми (ru) (čort vozʹmí), проклятие (ru) (prokljátije)
• Serbo-Croatian: kvragu (sh)
• Spanish: mierda (es), joder (es), maldita sea (es)

Noun

dammit (plural dammits)

1. The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.
   • 1938, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters:

     ... and I may say that I was as limpid as dammit.

   • 2006, Dewey Lambdin, A King's Trade‎, page 294:

     Get us about, quick as dammit! Clew up tops'ls, there!

   • 2007, Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh‎, page 14:

     I mean I'd banked on getting that permission, I'd as near as dammit been promised I'd get it. Can you wonder I was fed up to my back teeth?