blame v.
1. (US) a euph. for damn v.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Georgia Scenes (1848) 28: Blame my buttons [...] if I like them eyes. | |
| Bill Arp 42: Blame his old hide of him; I’ll bet he don’t appear at Savannah, not him. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Post to Finish I 26: Blame me, I do know whether they’re turned out all right when I see ’em. | |
 | Barber Co. Index (Medicine Lodge, KS) 1 May 4/3: ‘Gosh blame me ef he didn’t hev ye there, Hank’ . | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘Fanny Flukem’s Ball’ in Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) in Larrikins (1973) 39: Then Micky from the Rocks jumped up / And said ‘Bli’me, ’er, you know, / If any bloke in the bleeding crowd / Would like to have a go’. | |
| Roanoke Dly Times (Richmond, VA) 9 Feb. 6/3: Now, bloime me, what does joshing mean, yer knaw-aw? | |
| ‘My Mate Bill’ in Old Bush Songs 70: But blame my cats if I know what else / They’ll find for Bill to do. | |
| ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:ii 127: blame my skin, interj. | |
| Salt Lake Herald Repub. (UT) 17 Oct. 33/2: [cartoon caption] Gosh Blame it! | |
| Asheville Citizen-Times (NC) 8 June 17/3‘Well, gosh-blame me if you’ve went and give me 3 lbs. of sugar, so you have’: . | |
| Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I x: Why, blame you, you’ve been aching for a year to put the bracelets on me yourself! |
2. as past participle of sense 1; usu. as damned if... or ...be damned.
| Life of General F. Marion (1816) 166: I’ll be blamed if you do not get yourselves into business pretty; for the town is full of red coats. | |
| Charcoal Sketches (1865) 14: Well, I’ll be blamed! | |
| Pickings from N.O. Picayune (1847) 113: ‘I’m blamed if he dont,’ said Burns. | |
| ‘The Thimble Game’ in Polly Peablossom’s Wedding 33: Blamed ef I don’t know whar that ball is jist as well as you does. | |
| Pictures of Country Life 11: I’ll be blamed if I don’t b’live that some girl has some time give him the mitten. | |
| Tag, Rag & Co. 101: ‘Oh, blarmed if I can tell you,’ returned the carter wearily. | |
| (con. c.1840) Huckleberry Finn 68: ‘You wouldn’ tell on me ef I uz to tell you, would you, Huck?’ ‘Blamed if I would, Jim.’. | |
| Boys Of The Empire 23 Oct. 34: And I’ll help ’ee, Master Jack, I’m blamed if I don’t. | |
| ‘This Mornin’; this Evenin’’ in Rainbow in Morning (1965) 176: I’ll be blamed ef I can see [...] How all my money got away from me. | |
| Torchy 11: Blamed if it wa’n’t straight goods! |