dagnabbed
Mildly cursing something
Dagnabbed is a mild oath used as an intensifier, a folksy euphemism for goddamned: That dagnabbed dog got into the trash again.
It belongs to a family of minced oaths—dadgum, doggone, dadblamed—that let speakers express frustration without actual profanity.
The word sounds rural and old-fashioned, often used for comic effect.
Mild rural expletive
- doggoneFolksy mild expletive
- consarnitQuaint expletive substitute
- goldarnitEuphemistic rural expletive
- confoundTo thoroughly puzzle
tarnation · blast · drat · heck · dang · shoot · fudge · shucks
Destroyed or damned
- blamedHeld at fault
- confoundedThoroughly puzzled or frustrated
- doggonedMild expletive substitute
- blessedReceiving divine favor
cotton-picking · dad-blamed · infernal · flipping · blooming · blinking · ruddy · freaking
dadgummit
Mild rural expletive
- doggoneFolksy mild expletive
- consarnitQuaint expletive substitute
- goldarnitEuphemistic rural expletive
confound · tarnation · blast · drat · heck · dang · shoot · fudge · shucks · criminy
blasted
Destroyed or damned
- blamedHeld at fault
- confoundedThoroughly puzzled or frustrated
- doggonedMild expletive substitute
blessed · cotton-picking · dad-blamed · infernal · flipping · blooming · blinking · ruddy · freaking · stinking
old-timer
Long-tenured person
- ruralOf the countryside
- colloquialCasual, everyday language
- rusticRural and unrefined
homespun · down-home · country · vernacular · dialect · drawl · twang · wholesome · quaint · old-fashioned
dagnabbedaforementioned
Previously mentioned in text
exceedingly · utterly · said · thoroughly · remarkably