doggone
Americanverb (used with object)
adjective
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doggonest
superlative
adverb
interjection
adjective
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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
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
Maybe the vampire bat didn’t say it, but the only thought on my mind was, “Aha, you doggone Amoses, that hurt, but now I get my revenge!”
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
"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
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
It almost seems as if somebody blew out the doggoned sun.
From Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Robert Sydney Bowen
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
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
When I marry, it'll be because I'm so doggoned in love I'd be sitting out on the top step waiting for him to come round.
From Making Money by Owen Johnson
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