doggone v.
(orig. US) a general profanity; a euph. for god-damn v. (1); often as doggone it!
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Glasgow Herald 27 Mar. 4/1: In comes the birkie and the very young lady smoodging and laughing like daft. Dog on it! it was a shameless piece of business. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Scalp-Hunters I 288: Dog-gone it man! make haste then. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nonsense 33: I said in my puny wrath, ‘Dog-gone that ancient female’. | |
| Nashville Union (TN) 22 July 3/1: Sal, dog gone my hide if you ain’t the sweetest, littlest mite of humanity. | |
| Hoosier Mosaics 48: Dast the luck! Ding the prize package feller! Doggone Bill Powell! Blame the old b’loon! Dern everybody! | |
| Lancaster Dly Intelligencer (PA) 23 Aug. 1/5: I never heard of such a thing before in all my life, dog-on my hide if I have. | |
| Edgefield Advertiser (SC) 3 Mar. n.p.: Well dog my cats! [...] Well, now dog-gone my skin! | |
| Camps in the Rockies 7: Dog-garn them horses! | |
| Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 1 Aug. 4/3: Men can not be great in all things. Gen. Grant was a poor swearer. His two most violent oaths were ‘Judas priest’ and ‘dog gone it’. | |
| Blawearie 85: ‘Daggon ’t man, Will,’ replied he, pointing towards his bleeding trunk. | |
| (con. 1861) Rock Island Argus 2 June 3/5: Doggone it, lootenant, but yo’ are dead right! | |
| Lafayette Advertiser (LA) 23 Feb. 6/1: Shoo! I never thought of that. Doggone my hide! | |
| ‘After A Visit’ in Lyrics of Lowly Life 92: Well, pleg-gone it, I’m jes’ tickled. | |
| Mohave Co. Miner (AZ) 28 Aug. 1/1: Dogon the little toad that has a dozen kinds of thorns. | |
| Monroe City Democrat (MO) 9 May 6/2: ‘Dog-gone my hide!’ he ejaculated. | |
| Laurens Advertiser (SC) 15 Jan. 4/1: They ain’t man, woman ner child — doggone it, even er ornerey yaller purp ner scasely er flea on that pup. | |
| Confessions of a Con Man 133: Doggone my buttons, if I didn’t lose her! | |
| Gem 6 Feb. 24: ‘Dog-gone him!’ said the Frontiersman. | |
| Dingbat Family 11 Apr. [synd. cartoon strip] Dor-gonnit!! S’as much as my life is worth to let any-one know I come back. | |
| Boy’s Own Paper XL 3 148: Why! Doggone it! Me an’ yo’s mo’n jes pardners – ain’t we kid? | |
| Home to Harlem 24: Dog mah doggone ef I didn’t find it just as I landed. | |
| Mules and Men (1995) 112: Doggone it! | |
| ‘Baseball Hattie’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 652: ‘Oh, daggone her son!’ Haystack says. | |
 | ‘Jelly Bean’ 🎵 You’re making me blue. Doggone it! | |
| Book of Negro Folklore 391: She said, ‘Dog-gone you, girlie, / Dog-gone your hard-luck soul!’. | |
| Purlie Victorious in Black Drama II i: ol’ cap’n: Doggone my hide, eh, Git? gitlow: Doggone your hide, indeed, suh. | |
| Beano Comic Library No. 96 56: Doggone it! | |
| (con. 1964) Week (US) 1 June 23: Goldwater was the reluctant standard-bearer. ‘Doggone it,’ he said, ‘I’m not even sure that I’ve got the brains to be president!’. | |
| Sun. Times 19 Dec. 12/2: [headline] Doggone it. |
In exclamations
(US) a general excl. of surprise, amazement.
| Life in the Far West (1849) 186: I’m dog-gone if it ain’t! | |
| Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail 132: He had bullets an inch long [...] be doggoned ef they was ’nt some, eh? | |
| Scalp-Hunters I 89: I’m dog-gone, Jim, if I don’t feel queery about hyar. | |
| Englishman in Kansas 48: I’ll drop the first one of you that opens his mouth for abolition cusses; I be dog-gauned if I don’t. | |
| Joaquin 12: I’ll be dog gone’d but he’ll be cracked like those finger-long fleas the Irishman left us in this here shanty. | |
| Putnam’s Mag. July n.p.: I’ll be doggone if you ever pick a pound of cotton. | |
| Big Bonanza (1947) 420: I’ll be doggoned if you ketch me goin’ down thataway! [...] Leave me and be doggoned to you! | |
| Camps in the Rockies 61: Wa’al, boys, I’ll be doggarned if I won’t back you at grub-lifting against any other outfit in this yar country. | |
| Railway Guide 109: I’ll jest be dagg-don’d! ef didn’t take a week. | |
| Fighting Joe (1911) 120: I’ll be dog-on’d ef we don’t git captered ourselves. | |
| Marvel 21 Dec. 10: Well, I’ll be doggoned! | |
| Bar-20 x: I’ll be doggoned if here ain’t Hopalong! | |
| Beat It 38: I’ll be daggoned if i didn’t see another board fence. | |
| Shorty McCabe on the Job 119: Doggoned if she don’t turn out to be about the plumpest, cheeriest, winningest little body that ever I see unclaimed! | |
| God Sends Sun. 164: I be dog if I ain’t. | |
| Conjure-Man Dies 124: Well, I be dog-goned! | |
| Dark Hazard (1934) 41: ‘Ah be dawg,’ said the little negro. | |
| Gilded Six-Bits (1995) 996: Well, I’ll be doggoned! A gold-plated four-bit piece. | |
| Death on a Dude Ranch (1953) 199: I’ll be dogdamned! | |
| Really the Blues 155: Everything I [...] believed in was at stake, and doggone if I didn’t come out the winner. | |
| Laughing to Keep from Crying 186: Well, I’ll be dogged. | |
| Walk on the Wild Side 101: Little old red ’n green cawfee pot. Well I be dawg. | |
| ‘In the Evening’ 🎵 (Spoken:) Look out there, Mickey, talk about it now / Well I’ll be doggone. | |
| ‘The Last Carousel’ Texas Stories (1995) 137: Well I be dawg. That mexican had been on the up-and-up after all. | |
| ‘Big Legged Sally’ 🎵 Well hello Georges, well I’ll be doggone! I hadn’t seen you in a long time, man, where have you been? | |
| Melodeon 96: I’ll be dogged. It is. | |
| Robbers (2001) 92: The man whistled. I’ll be dawg. | |
| Indep. Rev. 20 Mar. 3: Well, I’ll be doggoned... |