"dam'" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1924, Rudyard Kipling, The Janeites:",
          "text": "“Every dam' thing about Jane [Austen] is remarkable to a pukka Janeite!”",
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          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 66:",
          "text": "Bradly squatted on the flat rock to wash his legs, saying gruffly to Podson, \"Better wash that dam' mud off; it sticks like hell when it's dry.\"",
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          "ref": "2008 December, Albert E. Cowdrey, “A Skeptical Spirit”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 115, number 6, page 109:",
          "text": "Papa says you must have your Degree and a Situation as well, before we can be wed. Well, hurry on and get the dam’ degree then!",
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          "ref": "1915, Rudyard Kipling, Debits and Credits, Bombay: The Gresham Publishing Company Limited; London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 32:",
          "text": "(These duck-shoots in the dark are dam’ dangerous, y’know.)",
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          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:",
          "text": "\"Always wanted a go at the figure. Funked it. Shows what a man can do, given the right model. Dam' good model.\"",
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          "ref": "1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 13, in Diamonds Are Forever:",
          "text": "“People are so dam’ sensitive about colour around here that you can’t even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro.”",
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