dad-blamed

[ dad-bleymd ]

adjective, adverb

damned (used as a euphemism in expressions of surprise, disgust, anger, etc.): The dad-blamed car got stuck in a snowdrift. He's so dad-blamed sure of himself.

Origin of dad-blamed

First recorded in 1835–45

Why, you dad-blamed old long-horned turtle-dove, the boys in camp was all cognoscious about them hiroglyphs.
Heart of the West | O. Henry
Why, you dad-blamed old long-horned turtle- dove, the boys in camp was all cognoscious about them hiroglyphs.
Heart of the West | O. Henry
Sid Pannalee he 'lows that the whole dad-blamed business is a put-up job.
Mingo | Joel Chandler Harris
It's a dad-blamed shame that the courts don't take a han' in the matter.
Gabriel Tolliver | Joel Chandler Harris

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