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
And I was like, ‘Ooh I’m gonna call this doggone number, I’ve been cheated on.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
“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
And that if you want hot french fries, then doggone it, you will have hot french fries.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
Shucks, this doggone FBI was just as good as the movies said it was, they were just like those Royal Canadian Mountain Police, they always got their man!
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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
"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
“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
But there ain't; and you know doggoned well there ain't.
From The Wreckers by Francis Lynde
If I wasn't so doggoned tired," said Slim to Bud as they prepared to pull up on reaching the corral, "I'd ride over after supper, and see what that smoke was.
From The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X by Willard F. Baker
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
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