dammit

English

Etymology

Alteration of damn it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmɪt/, /ˈdæmət/

Interjection

dammit

1. (vulgar) Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:dammit

Translations

expression of anger or disappointment

• Arabic: اللُّعْنَة (al-luʕna)
• Armenian: գրո՛ղը տանի (gróġə tani)
• Belarusian: пра́клён (prákljon)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 該死／该死 (zh) (gāisǐ), 该死 (zh) (gāisǐ), 你妹 (nǐmèi), 我靠 (zh) (wǒkào)

• Dutch: verdomme (nl)
• Esperanto: damne (eo), aĉ (eo)
• Finnish: pahus (fi), hemmetti, hitto vie
• French: merde (fr)
• German: verdammt (de), verdammt noch mal
• Greek: να πάρει ο διάβολος (na párei o diávolos), να πάρει ο διάολος (na párei o diáolos), διάβολε (el) (diávole), διάολε (el) (diáole)
• Hebrew: לְעֲזָאזֵל (he) (l'azazél)
• Indonesian: sialan (id), sialan bener, kurang ajar (id)
• Italian: merda (it), cazzo (it), dannazione (it), cavolo (it), cribbio (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: しまった (shimatta), くそ (ja) (kuso)
• Latvian: sasodīts
• Limburgish: noondemieljaar
• Persian: لعنتی (fa) (la'nati)
• Polish: kurde (pl), kuźwa, cholera (pl), w mordę jeża
• Portuguese: porra (pt), merda (pt)
• Romanian: la naiba!
• Russian: чёрт побери́ (ru) (čort poberí), чёрт возьми́ (ru) (čort vozʹmí), прокля́тие (ru) (prokljátije)
• Serbo-Croatian: kvragu, ђаволи
• Spanish: mierda (es), joder (es), maldita sea
• Swedish: fy tusan, fy fan (sv), fy sjutton, jäklar
• Turkish: kahrolsun, lanet olsun
• Welsh: wfft

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?