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God-ˈdamn(-me)
Forms: 7 God-damn(e)-me(e, -dam-me, -damme(e, -dame, 9 God-dam, Goddem.
[See god n. 8 and damn v.]
1. The utterance of this phrase as a profane oath. Also attrib. and as quasi-adj., accursed, damnable. So God-damned a.
1640Wits Recreat. No. 380 I 4 b, Swears from Believe me, & Good-faith & troth, Up to God-damn-me. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 61, I would pray hard to his Maker..to save his soule, notwithstanding all his God-damne mee's. 1652Peyton Catastr. Ho. Stuarts (1731) 28 The Courtiers garnished their mouths with God-dammes, as if they desired Damnation rather than Salvation. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 510 The Solemn League and Covenant Will seem a meer God-dam me Rant. 1689Philopolites Grumbletonian Crew 3 Unless their Throats be so furred with God Dame's, that no other Oath will slip. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. ix. 72 The ‘sacre’ and the English ‘God⁓dam’, were hurled at everything Mexican. 1869St. James's Mag. IV. 226 It was the fashion in France, on the stage..to represent the Englishman as habitually saying, ‘Godam’. 1898W. P. Drury Tadpole of Archangel 149 Before I could say ‘Goddam’, ..they would be fired. 1918Wine, Women & War (1926) 29 If and when I do get home, I'll be the same God damned crab I was when I went away. 1921J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers (1922) i. 10 Yer right not to go with any of the girls in this goddam town. 1928Queen 7 Nov. 6/3 Mr. Frederick Leister was as usual convincing in the usual Leister ‘God-damn-me!’ type of part, though here the godamns were tempered with strong emotion. 1929Abu Nadaar in Mercury Story Bk. 99 It was the utter goddam monotony that was the worst. 1929D. H. Lawrence Pansies 82 My mother was..cut out to play a superior rôle In the god-damn bourgeoisie. 1939N. Coward This Year of Grace in 2nd Play Parade ii. 90 I'm so sick of their God-damned faces. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) ii. 32 What a God-damned fool I am, he thought. Ibid. iv. 57 Perry leaped from his seat and came across the room enthusiastically. ‘Jesus, the God-damnedest thing just happened.’ 1958New Statesman 6 Sept. 330/3 And I'll ponder upon the son-of-a-don Who turned my goddamed thesis down. 1970W. C. Woods Killing Zone (1971) ii. 23 Now you men knock off the goddam chatter in there and listen up.
†2. One who is addicted to swearing (applied by the Puritans to the Cavaliers). Also attrib. Obs.
1640Wits Recreat. No. 233 F 6 a, What is the reason of God-dam-me's band, Inch-deep?.. God-dam-me saves a labor, understand, In pulling't off when he puts on the halter. 1643S. Marshall Let. Spir. Advice 15 If their long conversing with God-dammee's, hath not drawn such a Kawl over the hearts, that to them damnation is ridiculous. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. i. (ed. 2) 17 The God-dam-me Cavaliers. 1679Essex's Excel. 5 Such words as only befitted a railing parson in his Pulpit, or a drunken God-damme. 1713Gentl. Instr. iii. vii. (ed. 5) 430 Others were of the Town-cut, Young God-damme's that spoke ill, and liv'd worse.
‖3. (After F. goddam = OF. godon.) An Englishman.
1431[see damn v. 5]. 1830J. P. Cobbett Tour in Italy 8 It seems the ‘Goddems’ are having some fun. 1865Dublin Univ. Mag. I. 3 The Norman era was the true era of the ‘Goddems’. 1893Athenæum 25 Nov. 728/1 The English..confiscated..even the small possessions of farmers and burgesses in order to people their new colonies with fresh-imported ‘God-dams’, red-bearded..foreign-tongued, as Eustache Deschamps depicts them. |