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dog⋅gone

  [dawg-gawn, -gon, dog-] verb (used with object), -goned, -goning, adjective, superlative -gon⋅est, adverb Informal.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to damn: Doggone your silly advice!
–adjective
2. Also, doggoned. damned; confounded: a doggone fool; Well, I'll be doggoned.
–adverb
3. Also, doggoned. damned: He's a doggone poor sport.
Origin:
1850–55, Americanism; perh. from dog on it! euphemistic alter. of God damned
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dog·gone   (dôg'gôn', -gŏn', dŏg'-)   
tr. & intr.v.   dog·goned, dog·gon·ing, dog·gones
To damn.
interj.   & n.
Damn.
adv.   & adj. also dog·goned (-gônd', -gŏnd')
Damned. See Regional Note at damned.

[Alteration of Scots dagone, alteration of goddamn.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
doggone(d) [ˈdɔˈgɔn(d)]

  1. mod.
    darn(ed); damn(ed). : I sort of wish my hooter wasn't so doggone big.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

doggone 
1851, Amer.Eng., a "fantastic perversion of god-damned" [Weekley]. But Mencken favors the theory that it is "a blend form of dog on it; in fact it is still often used with it following. It is thus a brother to the old English phras
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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