dashedadj.
/daʃt/ 1. Struck violently against or by something; splashed; mingled, tempered, etc.: see the verb.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [adjective] > splashed with colour
dashed1646
splatchy1699
splashed1765
splattered1809
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 64 Torne sculls, & dasht out Braines.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems iii. App. lxvii Their dashèd bodies welter in the weedy scum.
1772 Town & Country Mag. 88 Half a dozen glasses of dashed wine.
1879 Spectator 6 Sept. 1126/2 Seeing it [the garden] present a more or less dashed appearance.
2. Marked with a dash, underlined.
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society > communication > writing > written character > [adjective] > diacritic > type of diacritic
circumflexa1577
dashed1859
umlauting1938
1859 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 154 Your dashed ‘induce’ gives the idea that Lyell had unfairly urged Murray.
3. slang or colloquial. A euphemism for ‘damned’ (see dash v. 11). Also adv., deucedly, confoundedly.
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the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation
stinking?c1225
misbegetc1325
banned1340
cursefula1382
wariablea1382
cursedc1386
biccheda1400
maledighta1400
vilea1400
accursedc1400
whoresona1450
remauldit?1473
execrable1490
infamous1490
unbicheda1500
jolly1534
bloodyc1540
mangy?1548
pagan1550
damned1563
misbegotten1571
putid1580
desperate1581
excremental1591
inexecrable?1594
sacred1594
putrid1628
sad1664
blasted1682
plagued1728
damnation1757
infernal1764
damn1775
pesky1775
deuced1782
shocking1798
blessed1806
darned1815
dinged1821
anointed1823
goldarn1830
darn1835
cussed1837
blamed1840
unholy1842
verdomde1850
bleeding1858
ghastly1860
goddam1861
blankety1872
blame1876
bastard1877
God-awful1877
dashed1881
sodding1881
bally1885
ungodly1887
blazing1888
dee1889
motherfucking1890
blistering1900
plurry1900
Christly1910
blinking1914
blethering1915
blighted1915
blighting1916
soddish1922
somethinged1922
effing1929
Jesus1929
dagnab1934
bastarding1944
Christless1947
mother-loving1948
mothering1951
pussyclaat1957
mother-grabbing1959
pigging1970
1881 W. E. Norris Matrimony III. 300 A dashed pack of quacks and swindlers.
1893 W. S. Gilbert Utopia (Limited) 11 How utterly dashed absurd.
Derivatives
ˈdashedly adv.
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the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adverb] > as everyday imprecation
wickedlya1375
terrible1490
cursedly1570
plaguilya1586
damnably1598
cursefully1606
damnedly1607
lousily1611
damnablea1616
execrably1633
excrementitiously1638
infernally1638
mangilya1640
putidly1654
infamously1695
consumedly1707
damned1757
damnationly1762
shockingly1768
damn1787
deucedly1819
peskily1833
pesky1833
beastly1853
dashedly1888
stinkingly1906
rasted1919
effing1945
1888 J. Payn Prince of Blood I. xi. 187 He would find himself dashedly mistaken.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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