dadgum
English
Alternative forms
- dad-gum, dadgummit, dadgumit, daggum
Etymology
Mostly a spoonerism of goddamn.
Adjective
dadgum (comparative more dadgum, superlative most dadgum or dadgummest)
- (US, euphemistic) goddamned.
- 2009, Roy Williams, Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court, →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, →ISBN, page 12:
- We wore the dadgummest colors you ever seen in your life.
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Adverb
dadgum (comparative more dadgum, superlative most dadgum)
- (US, euphemistic) goddamned.
- It's just too dadgum hot to run in the park.
Interjection
dadgum
- (US, euphemistic) goddammit