consarned
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of consarned
1835–45, alteration of concerned, used as a euphemism for confounded
Example Sentences
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Only a dream, miss, but it consarned me greatly.
From Only an Irish Girl by Duchess
Why they wanted to set up that consarned thing just across from Killykinick, I don’t know.
From Killykinick by Waggaman, Mary T. (Mary Theresa)
I knowed you an' Henry could tek keer uv yo'se'ves; but I wuz consarned 'bout Cissy, an' felt it high time to be lookin' artah her.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Bayne, Mary Addams
An' he say: 'Flash o' fun be consarned!
From The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories by Craffock, Charles Egbert
There were three great sciences, law, preaching, and physic—law consarned property, physic consarned the body, and preaching consarned the soul.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.
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