tarnal
Britishadjective
adverb
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Etymology
Origin of tarnal
C18: aphetic dialect pronunciation of eternal
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I went where you set that tarnal old bear trap and some critter has got into it and broken the chain and carried it off, and he makes a track bigger than an elephant.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
“He’s done fer you true this time, but the end of things is a tarnal long ways off yet, an’ don’t you go losin’ yer spunk!”
From The Harbor of Doubt by George W. Gage
But the axe, as Uncle Jack Lummis says of his brown mare, is "a tarnal great critter, any how!"
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various
Why Philadelphia must be a tarnal nation way off!
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
So, what does the tarnal old fool do but unhook the cord so’t the bulb could be carried as far as the winder.
From Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point by Alice B. Emerson
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