单词 | doggone |
释义 | doggoneadj.adv.n. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 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. ΚΠ 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.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. 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. ΚΠ α. β. 1849 Mississippi Free Trader & Natchez Gaz. 6 Oct. 1/3 Dog gone my luck.1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xxi. 288 ‘Dog-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. 19 ‘Dagon 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?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!’ B. int. As an expression of surprise, impatience, etc.: ‘damn!’, ‘damn it’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection] whatOE well, wellOE avoyc1300 ouc1300 ay1340 lorda1393 ahaa1400 hillaa1400 whannowc1450 wow1513 why?1520 heydaya1529 ah1538 ah me!a1547 fore me!a1547 o me!a1547 what the (also a) goodyear1570 precious coals1576 Lord have mercy (on us)1581 good heavens1588 whau1589 coads1590 ay me!1591 my stars!a1593 Gods me1595 law1598 Godso1600 to go out1600 coads-nigs1608 for mercy!a1616 good stars!1615 mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616 gramercy1617 goodness1623 what next?1662 mon Dieu1665 heugh1668 criminy1681 Lawd1696 the dickens1697 (God, etc.) bless my heart1704 alackaday1705 (for) mercy's sake!1707 my1707 deuce1710 gracious1712 goodly and gracious1713 my word1722 my stars and garters!1758 lawka1774 losha1779 Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784 great guns!1795 mein Gott1795 Dear me!1805 fancy1813 well, I'm sure!1815 massy1817 Dear, dear!1818 to get off1818 laws1824 Mamma mia1824 by crikey1826 wisha1826 alleleu1829 crackey1830 Madonna mia1830 indeed1834 to go on1835 snakes1839 Jerusalem1840 sapristi1840 oh my days1841 tear and ages1841 what (why, etc.) in time?1844 sakes alive!1846 gee willikers1847 to get away1847 well, to be sure!1847 gee1851 Great Scott1852 holy mackerel!1855 doggone1857 lawsy1868 my wig(s)!1871 gee whiz1872 crimes1874 yoicks1881 Christmas1882 hully gee1895 'ullo1895 my hat!1899 good (also great) grief!1900 strike me pink!1902 oo-er1909 what do you know?1909 cripes1910 coo1911 zowiec1913 can you tie that?1918 hot diggety1924 yeow1924 ziggety1924 stone (or stiffen) the crows1930 hullo1931 tiens1932 whammo1932 po po po1936 how about that?1939 hallo1942 brother1945 tie that!1948 surprise1953 wowee1963 yikes1971 never1974 to sod off1976 whee1978 mercy1986 yipes1989 the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > damn damn1589 damnationa1616 damme1645 darn1781 darned1808 by darn1840 doggone1857 dammit1894 hot damn1929 bollocks1940 dammit1956 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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