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▪ I. dagnab, a. and adv. U.S. colloq. (euphem., often humorous or in representations of rural speech).
Brit. |ˈdagˌnab|, U.S. |ˈdægˌnæb|
[‹ dagnab v. Compare doggone adj. and adv. and n., goldarn v. and adj. and adv.]
A. adj. = darn adj. Cf. doggone adj.
1934Frederick (Maryland) Post 10 Sept. 6 (cartoon caption) I didn't know the charge was goin' to blow the whole dagnab hill clean through. 1974J. D. MacDonald Dreadful Lemon Sky (1975) vii. 113 To each his dagnab blue-eyed own. 2004N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 8 Feb. iv. 15 We shouldn't be investigating ourselves with all these dagnab, goldarn, nosy Parker commissions.
B. adv. = darn adv. Cf. doggone adv.
1961Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Herald-Times 22 Feb. 2 m/5 Yer dagnab right somebody's gonna git shot. 2001Re: Citadel of Christendom I in soc.culture.irish (Usenet newsgroup) 30 May It's pretty dagnab obvious.
C. int. Expressing annoyance or amazement: ‘darn!’.
1969Lima (Ohio) News 5 Feb. 24/8 Now don't try to tell me she would have used ‘darn’, ‘goldren’, ‘dagnab’ or ‘blankety-blank’. Such expressions are too hackneyed for words. 1997Forward (Electronic ed.) 30 May 6 Well, dag nab, as they say down in Arkansas. 1998G. H. Rubio Icy Sparks ix. 67 ‘Dag nab!’ I said, at that moment remembering. ‘I left my assignment at school.’
▪ II. dagnab, v. U.S. colloq. (euphem., often humorous or in representations of rural speech).
Brit. |ˌdagˈnab|, U.S. |ˈdægˈnæb|
[Euphemistic alteration of God damn at god n. 8a(a) Compare dod-rot v., doggone v., goldarn v. and adj. and adv.]
trans. = darn v.2 Freq. with it. Cf. dagnabbit int.
1916Washington Post 13 Aug. ii. 5/5 We're prospectors, dag-nab it! 1925G. Herriman Krazy Kat 19 Apr. in B. Blackbeard Krazy Kat & Ignatz (2002) 28 (cartoon caption) He's got the edge on me, dagnab him. 1955Nevada State Jrnl. 3 Apr. 4/4 This, dag-nab it, is the U.S.A., where price tags used to mean what they say. 2001M. Crilley Akiko in Castle of Alia Rellapor xvi. 120 Well I'll be dagnabbed!
Derivatives. dagnabbed adv. and adj.
1948R. Moore Fire Balloon 164 Don't deserve a nice wife and baby... Come *dagnabbed near losing both of em, if you ask me. 1952Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 27 Mar. 6/4 Yew are all-fired wrong about that dod-rotted dag-nabbed gazabo. 2003M. H. Price et al. Forgotten Horrors 3 59/1 It's another infestation of those dagnabbed Nazis. |