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Euphemism for hell
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tarnation
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Tarnation is a 2003 American documentary film by Jonathan Caouette . The film was created by Caouette from over 20 years of hundreds of hours of old Super 8 footage, VHS videotape, photographs, and answering machine messages to tell the story of his life ...
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n. (context archaic English) The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1784, American English alteration of darnation (itself a euphemism for damnation ), influenced by tarnal (1790), a mild profanity, clipped from phrase by the Eternal (God) (see eternal ).
Usage examples of tarnation.
Brother Bainbridge, what in tarnation were you doing, alone and unarmed, in tiger country?
Hell and tarnations, I’ve known them for muddleheads and blockheads half my life, and firsthand, but I sure didn’t expect them to take leave of their senses, insulting our office of President, making our Party into a white demagogue’s party, slapping the Negro vote in the face.