"doggone" meaning in All languages combined

See doggone on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈdɒɡ.ɒn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdɑɡ.ɑn/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-doggone.ogg Forms: doggonest [superlative]
enPR: dŏgŏn [Received-Pronunciation], dägän [General-American] Etymology: Minced oath of goddamn or goddamned. Head templates: {{head|en|adjective|no comparative||superlative|doggonest}} doggone (no comparative, superlative doggonest)
  1. (US, dialectal) Euphemistic form of goddamned. Tags: US, dialectal, euphemistic, form-of, no-comparative Form of: goddamned Translations (Translations): sacré (French), verflixt (German)
    Sense id: en-doggone-en-adj-ISiHTsM5 Categories (other): American English, English euphemisms
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: daggone, doggoned [adjective]

Interjection [English]

IPA: /ˈdɒɡ.ɒn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdɑɡ.ɑn/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-doggone.ogg
enPR: dŏgŏn [Received-Pronunciation], dägän [General-American] Etymology: Minced oath of goddamn or goddamned. Head templates: {{en-interj}} doggone
  1. (US, dialectal) Euphemistic form of goddamned; an expression of anger or annoyance. Tags: US, dialectal, euphemistic, form-of Form of: goddamned (extra: an expression of anger or annoyance)
    Sense id: en-doggone-en-intj-2tAXmFFD Categories (other): American English, English euphemisms
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: daggone, doggoned [adjective]

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈdɒɡ.ɒn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdɑɡ.ɑn/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-doggone.ogg Forms: doggones [present, singular, third-person], doggoning [participle, present], doggoned [participle, past], doggoned [past]
enPR: dŏgŏn [Received-Pronunciation], dägän [General-American] Etymology: Minced oath of goddamn or goddamned. Head templates: {{en-verb}} doggone (third-person singular simple present doggones, present participle doggoning, simple past and past participle doggoned)
  1. (US, dialectal) To damn; to curse. Tags: US, dialectal Categories (topical): English minced oaths Related terms: dangnabbit, damn, daggum, dang, darn
    Sense id: en-doggone-en-verb-ItJ8lzI2 Disambiguation of English minced oaths: 15 15 70 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 33 47 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 5 12 83 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 21 70 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 11 81 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 4 14 82 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 10 16 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: daggone, doggoned [adjective]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.