thunderation
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of thunderation
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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