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
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Let’s just say there’s a whole lot of doggone fun to have here.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025
This week’s Slate News Quiz is doggone good.
From Slate ● May 17, 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
But sometimes, he emphasized, it does “get pretty doggone hot.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
Mrs. Walton’s been posting these doggone flyers everywhere in the school.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
Ain't dat de doggonest luck in de wide worl'!
From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington
"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
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
But I was so doggoned sore at that pardner of yours that I kinder went out of my head.”
From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Dane Coolidge
But I’ve conquered the doggoned thing, and got her to spark right, and I went a couple of rounds, Sunday and all, just to make sure she was in working order.
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
She’s thar shore enough, ‘n’ it seems like he’s gwine to keep her; but I wouldn’t hev believed it ef I hadn’t seen it, doggoned ef I would!
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“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
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