dinged adj.
(US) a euph. for damned adj.
Major Jones’s Courtship (1872) 100: I don’t blieve you have ever hearn of jest sich a dingd fool trick as they played on me. | ||
Fisher’s River 39: Mosey! Trollop! Git out’n here, you dinged old sloomy Yahoo! | ||
Down in Tennessee 94: Ye doan’t ’spose Tom’s a secesh? a dinged, rottin-souled, blue-blasted, son uv a Rebel, does ye? | ||
Bill Arp’s Peace Papers 78: ‘I bleeve I’ll unpack,’ sed one, ‘dingd if I’m afeerd of a blu taled fly; I’m goin to set down and be esy.’ ‘In a horn,’ sed I. | ||
Butler Citizen (PA) 15 June 1/4: ‘Dinged ef I ain’t glad,’ he continued. | ||
Bird o’ Freedom 15 Jan. 1/4: You are all right for a soldier, but I’m dinged if you ain’t got considerable to learn before you will be a success as an office boy. | ||
Tales of the Ex-Tanks 58: Dinged if every one of ’em didn’t say [...] ‘Hello, there pal!’. | ||
Varmint 113: I’ll be darned – no – yes – dinged if it isn’t the Dink chasing the Canary! | ||
Fighting Caravans (1992) 88: One of them d-dinged Kiowas. | ||
Robbers’ Roost 120: Dinged if I know. | ||
Hysterical Hist. of Aus. 40: A pretty dod gasted ding-whanged, flim-flammin set of thieves, rogues and vagabonds. |