Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express dissatisfaction or annoyance.
- adv. Damn.
- v. To damn.
- n. The least valuable bit; a jot: I don't give a dang.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Preterit of ding.
- To beat; throw; dash; force.
- A minced form of damn in its profane use. Also ding. See dinged.
Wiktionary
- v. euphemistic Damn.
- interj. euphemistic Damn.
- adj. euphemistic Damn.
- v. obsolete Simple past of ding.
- v. transitive, obsolete To dash
GNU Webster's 1913
- obsolete imp. of ding.
- v. obsolete To dash.
Etymologies
- See ding (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of damn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For the clangour continued at the same rate, -- _Dang, dang dang, dang_.”
“It was unmistakable: the big bell was going as he had never heard it before -- not being rung, but as if someone had hold of the clapper and were beating it against the side -- _Dang, dang, dang, dang_ -- stroke following stroke rapidly; and, half-confused by the sleep from which he had been awakened, Vane was trying to make out what it meant, when faintly, but plainly heard on the still night air, came that most startling of cries --”
“I mean she named her dang CD B. L.O.G, cuz she detest them!”
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“No, this is going to be an anthology where every poem you alight on and read, you say to yourself, Holy God dang, that is good.”
“It had alot of potential that somewhat fell short at points bugs mostly but dang, that is a fun game!”
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“And it sucks because I really started liking Jim Carrey after Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dang, that is such a a good movie).”
“This will have an impact on Ontarians, and your disregard and the fact that you don't give a dang is a problem," spokesman Kevin Gaudet told the Liberals on the committee.”
“dang, that is some super cool stuff, your right the hands are amazing!”
“Swearing at/in front of kids is definitely different from what I'm used to -- even as a foul-mouthed college kid I watched my language around kids I did slip up once while babysitting, however, saying "dang" in front of a promptly-horrified 5-year-old, who was mollified by my immediate pact with him promising that neither of us would ever swear again. :p”
“It was full of colloquial and informal American speak such as dang and like and stuff, and it all sounded so much less knowing that the Chaucer voice he uses.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dang’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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HeadShotTheDead's list
ocean, sea, ergotism, psyche, dang, darn, martyr, arrhythmia, two, choke, plague, memory and 2 more...
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Expletive Mimicry
Words that sound like words you shouldn't use.
frak, feldergarb, dagummit, daggum, gosh, darn, golly, fiddleesticks, fudge, gee, dang, shoot and 36 more...
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Utah Words
sluff, fetch, heck, yewt, coogar, flip, zoobie, dang, darn, jeez, frick, gosh
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Euphemisms for Curses
dang, darn, heck, shucks, shoot, dad gummit, dad burn it, gol dingit, sheesh, jeez, tarnation, consarn it and 8 more...
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Doo-it-yourself Doowop List
Just add a few of these words and phrases together to create your own doowop song.
doo wop, doo, wop, lama, shama, dong, ding, dooooo -wop-wop, shama lama, bom-bom-bom, doo-wop, shang-a-lang and 35 more...
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All in a huff
ptui, pfui, shit, crap, dang, damn, shoot, phooey, balls, what the hell?, nertz
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Don Martin
Sound affects by the ridiculous cartoonist Don Martin
toob, tweeb, sklishk, kachunk-kachunka-..., ging, zap, zap-pow, thwizzit!, zzzzzz, sploydoing, shlik, plablablabl and 213 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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gosh darn it to heck!
gosh, darn, heck, shoot, nuts, rats, poop, poo poo, dang, fiddlesticks, wash it, frick and 11 more...
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minced oaths
expostulations which originated as euphemisms for a stronger, socially unsanctioned, word or expression
strewth, zounds, land sakes, jiminy cricket, gorblimey, drat, begorrah, cripes, doggone it, gadzooks, odds bodkins, sacre bleu and 78 more...
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Exclamation words!
Oh my!
gadzooks, wowsers, jinkies, wowee, eureka, hurrah, huzzah, tada, elementary, geronimo, timber, voila and 15 more...
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razomrix's Words
c, amurny, iceblink, auchtermuchty, cacchio, menatal, strem, adore, no!, arse, hill, neck and 67 more...
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Watch Your Language, Young Man
Ahh, euphemisms. Every schoolkid's favorite pastime. They sound so naughty, but you can't really get in trouble for using them, can you?
darn, dang, shoot, shucks, flip, geez, gee whiz, golly, son of a gun, crud, shyster, holy schnikes and 58 more...
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digitaltempest's Words
provocation, dour, verizon, objective, caveat, diaspora, naked, sploosh, queen, goddess, odalisque, dementia and 78 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dang.

Prolagus "How official are these documents? Pretty dang official - they were issued by the General Administration of Sport of China."
(Stephen Hutcheon, on The Sydney Morning Herald*, in an article about the underaged gymnasts controversy.)
*I don't read it. Aug 23, 2008