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
Nevertheless, Costner and his family “watched the whole doggone thing” and celebrated his win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
There were a million ways to ask what I wanted to know and I chose the worst one when I said, “What in Sam Hill are you going to do with a doggone rock?”
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
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
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, little sweetheart, honest now, and I won't tell, and it's none of my doggoned business neither; but be you goin' to marry Amos Judson?"
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter
They swarmed up the stairs an' crowded the elevators, while that doggoned Tex sicked 'em on me.
From Oh, You Tex! by William MacLeod Raine
“Lord a massy! if thet thar ain’t jest like one o’ his doggoned tales!
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“She’s a doggoned purty critter,” said the little man in large trousers, placidly.
From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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