doggone
Americanverb (used with object)
adjective
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doggonest
superlative
adverb
interjection
adjective
Other Word Forms
Adjective Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of doggone
1850–55, perhaps from dog on it! euphemistic alteration of God damned
Example Sentences
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Let’s just say there’s a whole lot of doggone fun to have here.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025
“When I first started coming, they were very standoffish. Now most of them are pretty doggone friendly,” Olivio said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they’re doing a doggone good job, which I’m very thankful for,” tight end Logan Thomas said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
“The big problem is the whole doggone system. That’s the elephant in the room that no one is willing to address.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
I looked up to see whose doggone hand was so doggone big and why they’d put it around my neck.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
"My nevvy, Paddy, Peter, the doggonest young scamp an old sea-horse ever tried to raise," Rouse bellowed.
From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham
Ain't dat de doggonest luck in de wide worl'!
From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington
This has been the doggonest Fourth of July I ever spent, and as a result I am in much trouble.
From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dick Dorgan
Brigadier General William L. Roberts, until recently head of the 500-man U.S. military mission in Korea, had called the Korean army "the best doggoned shooting army outside the United States."
From Time Magazine Archive
“There,” he says, “you’re so doggoned bad–next time I see you I’ll know you!”
From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Dane Coolidge
“He was always sayin’ dad was hookin’ his doggoned cattle.
From The Range Boss by Frank Earle Schoonover
If we don’t have rain pretty doggoned soon we won’t have any crop.”
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie
An’ doggoned if I do let it go, cost what it may to keep holt o’t.
From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Mayne Reid
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