consarn
See also: consarn it
English
Etymology 1
Noun
consarn (plural consarns)
- Eye dialect spelling of concern.
- 1863, James Fenimore Cooper, The Crater[1]:
- Howsever, sir, that is a subject that need give us no consarn.
Verb
consarn (third-person singular simple present consarns, present participle consarning, simple past and past participle consarned)
- Eye dialect spelling of concern.
- 1898, Frank Richard Stockton, The Girl at Cobhurst[2]:
- There isn't no place," said Phoebe, "where there isn't somethin' that Miss Panney wants to consarn herself in."
Etymology 2
Alteration of confound.
Verb
consarn (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, no simple past, past participle consarned)
- (in oaths, as imperative) Confound.
- 1870, George Melville Baker, Little brown jug, page 17:
- Consarn it, Jarius, you are a hog, and no mistake.
- 1898, Edward Stratemeyer, The minute boys of Lexington, page 33:
- Consarn ye, take thet ! " And he banged each of the inoffensive animals in the sides with the stock of his gun
- 1913, Janet Aldridge, The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas[3]:
- "Leggo my whiskers, consarn ye!" it shouted.
- 2004, Cynthia Queen, The Major's Renegade, page 128:
- He came to camp follerin' this cat and a holloring, 'Here kitty-kitty-kitty' all over the consarned place.
- 2008, George Barr McCutcheon, The Daughter of Anderson Crow, page 257:
- Why, consarn you, Anderson Crow, I didn't have any spare children to leave around on doorsteps.