darnation! excl.
a euph. for damnation! excl.
 | Lover & Friendship I i: Darnation! says ’e, in a torne down passion — dont swear so, capun, says I (cool as a kewcumber). | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Forest Rose I ii: Darnation! If I had not been bussing Lid Rose! | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Caledonian Mercury 20 Jan. 4/5: Darnation! hear that now. | |
| Satanstoe I 68: ‘Buttermilk, by Jingo,’ exclaimed the disappointed pedagogue. Saint Jingo was the only saint, and a ‘darnation,’ or ‘darn you,’ were the only oaths, his puritan education ever allowed him to use. | |
| Portage Sentinel (Ravenna, OH) 7 Jan. 1/3: ‘Darnation to golly gracious!’ says he. | |
| ‘Sut Lovingood at Bull’s Gap’ N.Y. Atlas XXI Nov. in Inge (1967) 144: Darnation! how they reaches forard towards better things. | |
| Americanisms 594: Darn and darnation, said to be American inventions, and with their superfluous r betraying Southern manufacture, belong to that painfully numerous class of half-veiled blasphemies which abound in all parts of the United States and in all classes of society. | |
| Dly Gaz. for Middleborough 19 Sept. 4/3: Oh! Oh! Darnation to fish hooks! what’s been going on here? | |
| ‘Word-List from Hampstead, N.H.’ in DN III iii 185: darnation, interj. Softened form of damnation. ‘Darnation! Why couldn’t he stay away.’. | |
| Eve. Teleg. 30 Nov. : |