dammit
Americaninterjection
interjection
Etymology
Origin of dammit
First recorded in 1905–10
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The message in Mr. Gammons’s book—a bottom-of-the-ninth farewell to the game he covered over an extraordinary six-decade career—is simple: Baseball is a great sport, dammit, and I love everything about it, especially the players.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
But the war ended, and the smog didn’t, and L.A. wiped its weepy red eyes and demanded some solutions, dammit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Our fluids may today be less blue, but dammit, they're still so troublingly noisy.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2022
I will miss accidentally clicking on you, going "dammit" and then shutting you down right away.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2022
I don’t know what problem the stove was having, but if I know Mateo, and dammit I do, I bet he was doing something nice for us, something that absolutely isn’t worth his life.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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