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单词 doggone
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doggoneadj.adv.n.

Brit. /ˈdɒɡɒn/, U.S. /ˈdɔ(ɡ)ˈɡɔn/, /ˈdɑ(ɡ)ˈɡɑn/
Forms: 1800s dog on, 1800s dog-on, 1800s– dog-gone, 1900s– dawgone, 1900s– doggone.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: doggone v.
Etymology: Probably < doggone v. Compare doggoned adj. Use as adjective was perhaps reinforced by the homophony of the second element with gone , past participle of go v. N.E.D. (1897) gives the pronunciation as (dǫggǫ̀·n) /dɒɡˈɡɒn/, /dɒɡˈɡɔːn/.
colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
A. adj.
In expressing surprise, annoyance, etc.: damned, Goddamned; = doggoned adj. Sometimes used as past participle.
ΚΠ
1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. xxxiii. 309 This feels like the old 'ooman, and mush and molasses at that! if it don't, I'll be dog-gone!
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. vii. 89 ‘I'm dog-gone, Jim’,..replies the hunter.
1851 J. B. Lamar et al. Polly Peablossom's Wedding & Other Tales 149 ‘No,’ sez I, ‘I wont do no sich er dog on thing.’
1891 H. Herman His Angel 188 He ain't quite a dog-gone fool.
1932 J. M. Brewer in J. F. Dobie Tone Bell Easy 20 Ah ain't gwine let no dawgone sheep butt me.
1964 in R. D. Abrahams Deep down in Jungle ii. iv. 140 Let's all get drunk, break up the doggone house.
1992 Time 6 Jan. 48/2 ‘Now just a doggone minute! Point of order!’ the florid gentleperson from Stocksville declaims from the well of the House.
B. adv.
Confoundedly, damnably.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly
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1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master iv. 40 She was so dog-on stuck up.
1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter 95 You was so dog-gone proud of the blue coat.
1933 E. Caldwell God's Little Acre xviii. 266 When I get a load of it, I'll know dog-gone well my ship has come in.
2005 Independent 9 July 44/3 I am so doggone enthused about it right now, it makes my liver quiver.
C. n.
In negative contexts: a thing, a ‘damn’. Chiefly in not to give a doggone.
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1922 H. Wiley Lily i. 12 Eats when I kin git it, sleeps mos' all de time, I don't give a doggone if de sun don't neveh shine.
1933 E. Caldwell God's Little Acre xviii. 266 That will be my ship coming in, and I don't give a dog-gone for the name you call it.
1950 M. Y. McNeer Calif. Gold Rush 166 I don't care a doggone for your old cheeses, and pies and quilts and sich sort of Yankee fixin's.
1980 B. Jackson & D. Christian Death Row ii. 228 I don't give a doggone about reading about some other guy's experience anyway.
2002 G. P. Ames Panhandle Dreams xiv. 160 I don't give a doggone how mad they are!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

doggonev.int.

Brit. /ˈdɒɡɒn/, /ˌdɒɡˈɡɒn/, U.S. /ˌdɔ(ɡ)ˈɡɔn/, /ˌdɑ(ɡ)ˈɡɑn/, /ˈdɔ(ɡ)ˌɡɔn/, /ˈdɑ(ɡ)ˌɡɑn/, Scottish English /ˈdɔɡɔn/, /ˌdɔɡˈɡɔn/
Forms:

α. Scottish 1800s– dog on.

β. U.S. 1800s– dog-gone, 1800s– doggone, 1800s– dog gone, 1900s– dawgun.

γ. Scottish 1800s– dagon, 1800s– dag on.

δ. Scottish 1900s– digon.

Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English God damn.
Etymology: Probably a euphemistic alteration of God damn, probably after dog n.1 and gone, past participle of go v. (in α. forms after on prep.: compare sense 24a at that entry); the γ. and δ. forms may show an independent alteration of God damn. Slightly earlier currency is probably implied by doggone adj. Compare dagnab v., dod-rot v., dodgast v., dang v.1, darn v.2, etc.Compare also English regional (Yorkshire) daggit! damn it! (19th cent.), Scots (chiefly north-eastern) dag! (also deg!, †dags!) damn! (19th cent.), deggit! damn it! (20th cent.) (see further discussion in Sc. National Dict. at Dag int.):1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 36 Dag or dags you!1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 58 Daggit, an oath, equivalent to ‘dash it’.1924 W. Cumming Swatches o' Hamespun 22 Here I've been festent up in a black weskit made naar han' twenty 'ear syne, an' deggit! it's shrunken.1939 in Sc. National Dict. (1952) III. 10/2 [Aberdeenshire] Deg...Dag. [= confound!] N.E.D. (1897) gives the pronunciation as (dǫggǫ̀·n) /dɒɡˈɡɒn/, /dɒɡˈɡɔːn/.
U.S. and Scottish colloquial.
A. v.
transitive. Used in the optative with no subject to express surprise, impatience, or anger: ‘damn (it, you, etc.)!’. Typically with it.
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α.
1819 Blackwood’s Edinb. Mag. Sept. 627/1 My gracious Mr Editor, this is a fine prank you have been playing us all! The cry for copy is most terrible—dog on it.
1826 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 223 Dog on it, if I don't believe you are the author of the Whitey-brown yourself, Mr Ambrose.
1828 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch (1839) vi It was an awful business; dog on it , I aye wonder yet how I got through with it.
1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada v. 101 ‘Take that, dog-on-you!’
1917 R. Hughes We can't have Everything i. xviii. 118 Kedzie was so angry at herself and everybody else that she flung off his hands and snapped, ‘Quit it, dog on it!’
β. 1849 Mississippi Free Trader & Natchez Gaz. 6 Oct. 1/3 Dog gone my luck.1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xxi. 288Dog-gone it man! make haste then!’1892 Nation (N.Y.) 21 Apr. 303/3 I think ‘Dog gone it’ is simply ‘Dog on it’.1925 G. Herriman Krazy Kat in Seattle Post-Intelligencer 18 Jan. E3/3 ‘Two, six bits’—Dawgunnit, I bet I could'a got three out'a him just as well.1941 J. A. Lomax & A. Lomax Our Singing Country v. 370 Lord, a brown-skinned woman make a preacher lay his Bible down, Doggone my soul, hey, Lordy, Lordy.1963 R. H. Morrieson Scarecrow (1964) v. 56 Doggone it, she was grown up and she was pretty.1989 Best of 2000 AD Monthly Dec. 7 Doggone it, Cutie! Why didn't you warn me about her?2002 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 24 Feb. (Queensland ed.) 70 Doggone it! What's wrong with that furball?! Where's his killer instinct.γ. 1874 A. Hislop Bk. Sc. Anecd. 121 Dag on't, Eglinton, ye've spoil't a'.1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid 70 Dag on't! it was a black burning shame.1891 J. M. Barrie Little Minister I. iii. 32 Dagon that manse! I never gie a swear but there it is glowering at me.1929 Scots Observer 31 Oct. 19Dagon auld wives' tales’ she exclaimed.2000 in Sc. National Dict. New Suppl. (Electronic text) at Dag int. [Edinburgh] Dag on it! Every mornin Ah keep missin the bus.δ. 1902 A. Wardrop Robin Tamson's Hamely Sketches 52 Digont, diddan you tell me, or oo cam' up here, that that wis twa-an'-six?
B. int.
As an expression of surprise, impatience, etc.: ‘damn!’, ‘damn it’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]
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my hat!1899
good (also great) grief!1900
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > damn
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1857 Boston Daily Advertiser 19 June 2/1 The driver was assured he was mistaken in his identity. ‘Dog-gone, I suppose I am...Well, dog gone if I care.’
1897 Los Angeles Times 9 Aug. 5/1 Well, doggone! I guess you can get most anything at one o' them big stores, if the truth 'uz known.
1918 Stars & Stripes 8 Feb. 8/5 ‘Well, doggone!’ says Fat, in wonderment at the littleness of the world.
1933 F. Willoughby Alaskans All 203 We churned and crunched along..and then, doggone! The river froze solid from bank to bank.
1968 New York 23 Sept. 45/2 Doggone if they didn't go and move the town about a mile, houses and all, because of some dam they were a-building.
2001 J. Harmon Great Radio Heroes (expanded ed.) i. 23 Doggone, stone steps—as grand as you please.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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