dammit
English
Etymology
Univerbation of damn + it.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdæmɪt/, /ˈdæmət/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -æmɪt, -æmət
Interjection
dammit
- (mildly vulgar) Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:dammit
Derived terms
- dammit to hell
- god dammit
- near as dammit
Translations
expression of anger or disappointment
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Noun
dammit (plural dammits)
- The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.
- 1935, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins:
- ... my life at Cannes was as blameless as dammit.
- 1938, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters:
- ... and I may say that I was as limpid as dammit.
- 2006, Dewey Lambdin, A King's Trade, page 294:
- Get us about, quick as dammit! Clew up tops'ls, there!
- 2007, Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh, page 14:
- I mean I'd banked on getting that permission, I'd as near as dammit been promised I'd get it. Can you wonder I was fed up to my back teeth?
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- A fastener used for military medals, name tags or other things that are pinned to a uniform; a clutch, a clutchback.
- 2022 July 18, Perry Muse, Morbid Thoughts and the Domino Effect: Passing Thoughts During Cancer, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN, page 21:
- We couldn't find enough dammits (a cap that goes over the pin to hold it on). We were lucky to find our name tags.
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References
- 2010 December 2, Amy Efaw, Battle Dress, Penguin, →ISBN:
- dammits: clasps on the back of name tags, BRASS, or service ribbons which are pinned to the uniform.