Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a euph. for god-damn adj.

1851		‘How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit’ in T.A. Burke Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 69: She didn’t care a dog on bit for all the sarpints that ever cum er ’long.
1857		T.H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 47: If there’s a doggauned Abolitionist aboard, I should like to see him, that I should. I’m the man to put a chunk o’ lead into his woolly head, right off; yes, sir, that’s what I’ll do.
1859		Argus (Melbourne) 30 Apr. 4/6: [A] glossary is sometimes necessary to enable English readers to comprehend [...] American journals ! What, for example, is the meaning of ‘dod-derned’ and ‘dog-gone’.
1867		Sugar Planter (W. Baton Rouge, LA) 21 Sept. 4/1: Now see heah, stranger, yeh’ve bin fooled the dogondest.
1869		‘South-Western Sl.’ in Overland Monthly (CA) Aug. 130: Neither of them will [...] fall into an ‘almighty fix,’ though he might get into a ‘dog-oned fixment’.
1871		E. Eggleston Hoosier School-Master (1892) 130: I [...] lost my leg by one of em stickin’ his dog-on’d bagonet right through it.
1872		Schele De Vere Americanisms 597: Doggone [...] is also, in all probability; original with us, and mainly used in the South.
1876		Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly I 17: Since I’ve been in this doggoned country I’ve had one or two near things.
1883		San Marcos Free Press (TX) 8 Mar. 6/4: You live in a mighty bad town. This is a doggon bad town, stranger.
1884		J. Miller Memorie and Rime 120: Yes, biggest country, richest country and dogondest healthiest country this side of jericho!
1893		Yorkville Enquirer (SC) 17 May 4/1: Look, yer dod gast, yer essenshully dog-goned, dod-busted, white-livered impudence — you skip.
1888		Manchester Courier 16 June 10/2: I’d like to see any doggoned Chicago bulldozer get ahead of me that way.
1895		S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1964) 107: You always talk like a dog-hanged parson.
1900		S.F. Call 11 Feb. 8/5: ‘Well, I be dog-hanged,’ he frequently said.
1901		Marvel XV:373 Jan. 7: Give him sech a dog-gone busted larrupin’ as’ll last him fer ten years!
1905		H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 303: Doggonedest place you ever see.
1910		O. Johnson Varmint 365: ‘Doggone robbers!’ said the Millionaire Baby tearfully.
1916		P. Kyne Cappy Ricks 316: Not a dog-goned bit!
1921		N. Putnam West Broadway 126: I’ll be dog-goned if in three minutes we wasn’t chewing the rag like old friends.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 406: Come on, you dog-gone, bullnecked, beetlebrowed, hogjowled, peanutbrained, weaseleyed four flushers, false alarm and excess baggage!
1922		P.A. Rollins Cowboy 192: Pete, you dog-goned, inflated, lost soul, let out that wind.
1927		Victoria Spivey ‘Dope Head Blues’ 🎵 I bit a dog last Monday / And forty doggone dogs went mad.
1934		M. Fulcher ‘Believe Me’ in Afro-American (Baltimore, MD) 1 Sept. 13/3: It’s the dawggone sensitiveness [...] that West Indians feel.
1937		W.M. Raine Cool Customer 184: You’re the doggondest idiot I ever did meet.
1946		(con. 1910s) J. Thompson Heed the Thunder (1994) 44: ‘Well, that doggone ornery kid!’ he said warmly.
1953		L. Uris Battle Cry (1964) 25: You spent the whole doggone game in our backfield.
1961		T. Taylor Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 74: [US speaker] ‘Let’s blow our doggone heads off!’.
1965		T.B. Haber ‘Canine Terms Applied to Human Beings’ in AS XL:2 85: doggonedest. An intensive of doggoned, as a term of reprobation.
1967		Otis Redding & Carla Thomas ‘Tramp’ 🎵 Well, I tell one dog-gone thing. It makes me feel good to know one thing. I know I’m a lover.
1972		O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 158: I know the daggoned thing probably starts at eight thirty.
1979		T. Rhone Old Story Time Ii v: One of my workmen phone her up, threaten to kill me if I don’t pay him his doggone money‘Just one doggone second, please’.
1991		F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 49: ‘Doggoned varmint,’ he said as he spat teeth and blood onto the floor.
1994		(con. 1960s) G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 30: I have [...] galloped up Bunting Road dar-darring at any doggone gunslingin’ critter who crossed my path.
1996		L. Pettiway Honey, Honey, Miss Thang 262: Look at you. Like a daggone ant, you go crawling in the bed.
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 161: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Doggone.
2010		L. Berney Gutshot Straight [ebook] ‘Just one doggone second, please’.