dadgum

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Mostly a spoonerism of goddamn.

Adjective

dadgum (comparative more dadgum, superlative most dadgum or dadgummest)

  1. (US, euphemistic) goddamned.
    • 2009, Roy Williams, Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court‎[1], →ISBN, page 82:
      I was the best dadgum calendar salesman there ever was.
    • 2004, Loretta Lynn, You're Cookin' It Country: My Favorite Recipes and Memories‎[2], →ISBN, page 12:
      We wore the dadgummest colors you ever seen in your life.
    • 2020 April 29, Paula Deen, “Quarantine Cooking - Sandwiches for the Kids”, in YouTube‎[3]:
      Well, let me tell you, I was in a nosebee—bleed seat – I think in the top seat in the whole dadgum Omni building [laughs] – and I— all I could see was this little speck [laughs] down on the stage with a cape on, so I knew it had to be Elvis [laughs].

Adverb

dadgum (comparative more dadgum, superlative most dadgum)

  1. (US, euphemistic) goddamned.
    It's just too dadgum hot to run in the park.

Interjection

dadgum

  1. (US, euphemistic) goddammit
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