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
“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
And, doggone it, Palin appears to have a puncher’s chance of winning.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2022
Shucks, who’d want a daddy that on top of being so old and so doggone mean had such a big belly?
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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
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
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
Well, sir, I went to Chicago, and hung around that doggoned city fur a week 'r two; but no Lil.
From The Spiritualists and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
And he's goin' to find out right now that it ain't no use to bring any doggoned teacher up here to teach this outfit.
From Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life by Frances Parker
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
All right then, don’t use the doggoned road!”
From Wunpost by Dane Coolidge
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