doggone

English

Alternative forms

• daggone
• doggoned (adjective)

Etymology

Minced oath of goddamn and/or goddamned.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dŏgŏn; IPA^(key): /ˈdɒɡ.ɒn/
• (General American) enPR: dägän; IPA^(key): /ˈdɑɡ.ɑn/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

doggone (no comparative, superlative doggonest)

1. (US, dialectal) Euphemistic form of goddamned.

   I lost my doggone keys again!

   • 1849, Emerson Bennett, Leni-Leoti; or, Adventures in the Far West:

     "Hist!" exclaimed Black George. "I'll be dog-gone ef [if] I don't think we're chawed [chewed] up this time, sure as sin!"

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:damned

Translations

Translations

• French: sacré (fr)
• German: verflixt (de)

Interjection

doggone

1. (US, dialectal) Euphemistic form of goddamned; an expression of anger or annoyance.

   Doggone! I lost my keys again.

Verb

doggone (third-person singular simple present doggones, present participle doggoning, simple past and past participle doggoned)

1. (US, dialectal) To damn; to curse.
   • 1915, The Scoop, volume 4, page 247:

     […] doggoning something or other with deep sincerity.

Related terms

• dangnabbit

See also

• damn
• daggum
• dang
• darn