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Dadgummit!
Meaning
- An exclamation of annoyance. Similar to 'dadburn it,' it is a way to express anger in a family-friendly way.
Exasperated, colloquial
Used in a sentence
- Dadgummit, I forgot the milk at the grocery store.
- Dadgummit, this lawn mower is acting up again.
- I lost my fishing lure in that tree, dadgummit.
The backstory
Like many minced oaths, this evolved as a way to avoid taking the Lord's name in vain. It is a classic Americanism often associated with rural or Southern dialect.
Heard in
The South
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