Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Confounded: a minced epithet equivalent to darned as a euphemism for damned.

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Examples

  • "I told his father Alfred would go off some day and then they'd all be dog-goned sorry they hadn't handled him different."

    Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

  • "That's the worst of those dog-goned things," he exclaimed, scowling at the object blocking his way.

    Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith

  • Mary, ye needn't be skeered, jes res 'easy, I'll see hit's all es proper es eny meetin' or Sunday School an 'ef they don't like it, be dog-goned ef I don't make

    Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

  • I guess you must be pretty dog-goned crazy about birds yourself to have done such a lovely job on Alice, and I guess you know how perfectly sick I was over her death.

    Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises Donald Ogden Stewart 1937

  • I guess you must be pretty dog-goned crazy about birds yourself to have done such a lovely job on Alice, and I guess you know how perfectly sick I was over her death.

    Perfect Behavior 1922

  • Is your soul so dog-goned dead, crushed under the weight of dollars, that you have failed to realize this document is destined to go down in history side by side with Lincoln's

    Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

  • Some of these gents that allow they're hard citizens ain't so dog-goned much.

    Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

  • Now I want you to call on every citizen in Antelope and tell every dog-goned one of

    Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • Guess I could love a woman if she wouldn't laugh at me for bein 'so dog-goned lengthy.

    Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • Yes, sir; and we _would_ be, too, if we could jest git these dog-goned inequalities straightened out.

    The Gibson Upright Booth Tarkington 1907

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