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Definition of Darnation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Darnation
Literary usage of Darnation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem: The Record of a Brilliant Era of by Ralph D[elahaye] Paine (1912)
"I should jest as soon think on't, really. Now I'm ready to pull and haul, or
wrestle, back to back, Indian hug, or any way you like, fight the darnation ..."
2. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1867)
"said another, "he's so darnation «mall." Timmy began to grow uneasy. ...
"There's frogs enough in Lily Pond," said Timmy ; " but it's darnation hard work to ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"darnation. A euphemism for damnation. “Buttermilk, by Jingo,” exclaimed the
disappointed ... Saint Jingo was the only saint, and a darnation, or darn you, ..."
4. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"Where's that darnation cordial? MRS. LINCOLN. It's all right, Abraham. I told
the girl to keep it out. The cupboard 's choked with papers. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"Darned" and " darnation" are well known as doing duty for more decided forms ;
and even " I vow " requires to be softened into " I vum. ..."
6. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1798 It seems as if the Irish are as incorrigible as the darnation Bostonians.—The
Aurora, Phila., Aug. 14. 1800 He'll read a speech,—reads 'nation bad. ..."
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