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"Gosh darn it!"
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tarnation
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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 ).
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tarnation may refer to: Minced oath form of Damnation , everlasting punishment Tarnation (band) , a San Francisco-based alt-country-goth band Tarnation (film) , a 2003 documentary film by Jonathan Caouette
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.