thunderation

[thuhn-duh-rey-shuhn]

interjection

1. an exclamation of surprise or petulance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of thunderation¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; thunder + -ation

Example Sentences

I hoped thunderation wasn’t on a list of forbidden words.

From Literature

“Well, if it’s so common, what are you two all 'thunderation' about?”

From Literature

Man alive—it were a thunderation bull elephant, and I slipped outer the bush and bolted for hum with Harkins’s yell a-ringing in my ears.

From Project Gutenberg

You know what it is to be waked all of a sudden out of a sleep a full mile from the sea by the smacking crash of a great wave, and there I was in the very thick of the thunderation, with the big black breakers swishing out of the dark like a movin’ wall, and jus’ leapin’ agin the rock as though they were bent on sweeping it away.

From Project Gutenberg

Thunderation! he was jes’ lying full-stretched for a spring from a tree branch jes’ above where I laid that pill, awaiting for me to come along.

From Project Gutenberg