damme! excl.
a euph. for damn! excl.
Wily Beguiled 9: But damme me if they find it so. | ||
Nest of Ninnies 32: Aloud hee cryes, Dmee! dmee! dmee! | ||
Familiar Letters (1737) I 3 Dec. 226: My Lord Powis [...] said, Dammy if ever he come to be King of England, I will turn Rebel. | ||
Covent-Garden Weeded IV i: nick.: But Dammy — gab.: O fearfully profane! [in cynical use]. | ||
Proceedings before his Highness Councel concerning the Petitioners of the Isle of Ely against George Clapthorne Esqyure 26 Aug. 7: He hath known him to be a common swearer, his ordinary Oathes being, God damme me, Gods blood. | ||
Eng. Rogue I 364: A fellow came where we were, swearing dam-me, why do you stay with this fellow, and leave me thus. | ||
New Academy of Complements 257: Then I cry, Dam me, you lie. | ||
Art of Wheedling 204: He [...] cries, Damme, Madam, were you but sensible of the Passion I have for you. | ||
Soldier’s Fortune II i: Damme, madam, who’s that? | ||
Female Wits I i: Damme, I dare fight! | ||
Double Gallant V i: Blood! Sir – don’t think, Sir, – Dammy Sir, I shall expect Satisfaction. | ||
Hist. of Col. Francis Charteris 31: This, D—me, came by doing as you bid me. | ||
Lying Valet II i: Hearing a noise in the street of, ‘Damme, Sir,’ and clashing of swords [...] I runs up to the place, and saw four men upon one. | ||
Scots Mag. 1 Oct. 19/2: I had before made some progress in learning to swear: I had proceeded by Fegs, [...] ’pon my life, Rat it, and Zookers [...] to Demme. | ||
Memoirs of an Oxford Scholar 54: Damme, Sir, what is it to you? | ||
Coll. Works (1966) III 13: Dammee if I don’t. | ‘A Description of Various Clubs’ in||
Coll. Works (1966) III 47: You Mr. Lutestring, send me home six yards of that paduasoy, dammee; but harkee, don’t think I ever intend to pay you for it, dammee. | ‘Serious reflections on the life and death of the late Mr. TC ’ in||
Songs Comic and Satyrical 127: If he won’t do for me when I send in my name, / Why, damme then, I’ll do for him. | ‘The Damn’d Honest Fellow’ in||
Spanish Rivals Prologue: See what comes next—and, damme! see it out. | ||
Works (1794) II 330: By G-- I’ll speak, and d-mme I’ll be heard. | ‘Exposulatory Odes’||
Belinda (1994) 91: I’m too hot, damme, to walk with you any more. | ||
Boxiana I 26: Dam’me, I am not beat, but what signifies when I cannot see my man. | ||
All at Coventry II i: Damme, I can’t edge in a word any how. | ||
Life and Trial of James Mackcoull 85: We shan’t sell them Huffey, d-mme, we’ll go to the country. | ||
Tales of A Traveller (1850) 148: Damme, I like you! | ||
‘Nocturnal Sports’ in Universal Songster II 179/2: Vhat are you hup to with that there vench. [...] I sees vhat you’re arter, but that cut vo’n’t do, demme. | ||
Westward Ho! I 38: Damme if he isn’t the finest creature in Virginia. | ||
Oliver Twist (1966) 357: No, damme! you wouldn’t do that! | ||
Bell’s Life in London 10 Feb. 2/1: I saw, my raw one, we’ll stand sammy — / For with doorknockers to make free, / Is very pretty pastime dammee! | ||
Devil In London III ii: Oh, damme, damme, damme! Here’s fine words, and no parsnips to butter. | ||
Vanity Fair I 301: ‘Dammy,’ George said to a confidential friend. | ||
N. Wales Gaz. 21 Dec. 8/5: Dammy, I like the lodgings. | ||
Prince of Wales’ Own Song Book 47: Here’s the wondrous talking fish [...] Says plain ‘Mammy,’ calls out ‘damme’ / And can preach like Mr. Spurgeon. | ‘The Mountebank’ in||
Term of His Natural Life (1897) 59: Why, damme, you won’t let a fellow spare! | ||
Truth (Sydney) 3 June 1/6: Damme, that woman deserves to have a vote. | ||
Minor Dialogues 19: Why, damme, sir, the electric light. The electric light in church! | ||
Hole in the Wall (1947) 148: Damme, I don’t want to stay – not me. | ||
Sun. Times (Perth) 24 June 4/8: ‘Tell us how you helped arrest Deeming.’ ‘Dammee if I do’. | ||
Benno and Some of the Push 17: ‘What’s ah fellah to do, bai Jove, when the old gentleman says, ‘Go there, sir, and stay there, demmy, till you’re sent for’? | ‘Nicholas Don and the Meek Almira’ in||
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 190: Damme if it ain’t his third one. | ||
Third Round 733: Damme, sir [...] I was at his funeral a week ago. | ||
Age Of Consent 219: Damme, she’s dead. | ||
Fowlers End (2001) 175: Well, damme, if it isn’t little Danny! |
In compounds
a blustering, profane, aggressive thug.
Covent-Garden Weeded IV i: Great Damboys shrink, and give a little ground. | ||
‘On a Little Diminutive Band’ in | (1969) 139: What is the reason of God-dam-me’s band / Inch-deep?||
Works Depriver of those solid joys, Which sack creates; author of noise / Among the roaring punks and dammy-boys. | ||
Catterpillers of this Nation Anatomized 37: This Dammee Captain by his Wit, Sword, and Baskethilt-Oathes; the two Iast he makes use of to frighten Rum-Cullies out of their cash. | ||
Eng. Rogue I 134: I had not been long in her house, before a roaring Damme entered the house. | ||
Maronides (1678) V 5: A knot ot Hectring Dammie fellows / Instead of Rapiers using Bellows. | ||
Rover V i: See how this—Huff becomes—this Dammy—flare— / Which they at home may act, because they dare, / But—must with prudent Caution do elsewhere. | ||
Love for Love Epilogue: These walls but t’other day were filled with noise / Of roaring gamesters, and your damme boys. | ||
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Damme boy a roaring mad, blustering fellow, a Scourer of the Streets. | ||
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Damme boy, a roaring, mad blustering fellow, a scourer of the streets, or kicker up of a breeze. | |
Sporting Mag. June XVIII 166/2: Damme-bloods, jackanapes, she-smugglers, and imps. | ||
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Gloss. (1888) I 223: The practice of profane swearing was carried to such an excess among the rakes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, that dammy, or dammy-boy came into use as an ordinary term for a riotious person. |