doggone

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Minced oath of goddamn or goddamned.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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doggone (no comparative, superlative doggonest)

  1. (US, dialectal) Euphemistic form of goddamned.
    I lost my doggone keys again!
    • 1849, Emerson Bennett, Leni-Leoti; or, Adventures in the Far West:
      "Hist!" exclaimed Black George. "I'll be dog-gone ef [if] I don't think we're chawed [chewed] up this time, sure as sin!"

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Translations

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Interjection

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doggone

  1. (US, dialectal) Euphemistic form of goddamned; an expression of anger or annoyance.
    Doggone! I lost my keys again.

Verb

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doggone (third-person singular simple present doggones, present participle doggoning, simple past and past participle doggoned)

  1. (US, dialectal) To damn; to curse.
    • 1915, The Scoop, volume 4, page 247:
      [] doggoning something or other with deep sincerity.
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