Green’s Dictionary of Slang

euph. abbr. of damn v.; usu. as D’d.

1854		Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Oct. 127/2: ‘D. the southern gale [...] it is right in our teeth’.
1858		R.S. Surtees Ask Mamma 369: If ever I joke with any man under the rank of a duke again, may I be capitally D’d.
1865		R.S. Surtees Facey Romford’s Hounds 124: Everybody was sick of Willy Watkins. It was — Oh, ‘D’ Willy Watkins! and ‘B’ Willy Watkins.
1933		O.O. McIntyre New York Day by Day 28 Feb. [synd. col.] He’d be double d’d if he ever wrote another line.