[damd] 
adjective, superlative damned⋅est, damnd⋅est, noun, adverb | 1. | condemned or doomed, esp. to eternal punishment: the wailing of damned souls. |
| 2. | detestable; loathsome: Get that damned dog out of here! |
| 3. | complete; absolute; utter: a damned nuisance; a damned fool. |
| 4. | Informal. extraordinary; amazing: It was the damnedest thing I'd ever seen. |
| 5. | the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment. |
| 6. | extremely; very; absolutely: a damned good singer; too damned lazy. |
| 7. | damned well, Informal. certainly or without doubt; emphatically: You damned well better say you're sorry! Also, damn well. |
[dam] | 1. | to declare (something) to be bad, unfit, invalid, or illegal. |
| 2. | to condemn as a failure: to damn a play. |
| 3. | to bring condemnation upon; ruin. |
| 4. | to doom to eternal punishment or condemn to hell. |
| 5. | to swear at or curse, using the word “damn”: Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! |
| 6. | to use the word “damn”; swear. |
| 7. | (used as an expletive to express anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.) |
| 8. | the utterance of “damn” in swearing or for emphasis. |
| 9. | something of negligible value: not worth a damn. |
| 10. | damned (defs. 2, 3). |
| 11. | damned. |
| 12. | damn well, Informal. damned (def. 7). |
| 13. | damn with faint praise, to praise so moderately as, in effect, to condemn: The critic damned the opera with faint praise when he termed the production adequate. |
| 14. | give a damn, Informal. to care; be concerned; consider as important: You shouldn't give a damn about their opinions. Also, give a darn. |
| damn (dām) v. damned, damn·ing, damns v. tr.
To swear; curse. interj. Used to express anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment. n.
Damned. [Middle English dampnen, from Old French dampner, from Latin damnāre, to condemn, inflict loss upon, from damnum, loss.] damn'ing·ly adv. |
| damned (dāmd) adj. damned·er (dām'dər), damned·est (dām'dĭst)
Used as an intensive: a damned poor excuse. n. Souls doomed to eternal punishment. There are many regional variants, mostly euphemisms, for damned, both as an oath and as a mild intensive. Southern exclamations and intensives tend to begin with dad-, a euphemism for "god"—hence dadblamed, dadblasted, dadburn, and dadgum. Dadgum can be combined with it in the interjection dadgummit. Another such euphemism is the better-known doggone, probably originally Southern but now widespread. Like dadgum, doggone is used as a mild intensive: "The best doggone deals in Alabama" (billboard in Montgomery). Doggone likewise appears in phrasal interjections: Doggonit, I dropped my hammer. A common Southern and South Midland variant of damned is durn, also euphemistic and relatively mild, as in this snatch of Baltimore dialogue: "If that's not just the weirdest durn thing I ever laid eyes on" (Anne Tyler). |
