dam'

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dam"

English

Alternative forms

• dam

Adjective

dam' (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of damn.
   • 1924, Rudyard Kipling, The Janeites:

     “Every dam' thing about Jane [Austen] is remarkable to a pukka Janeite!”

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 66:

     Bradly squatted on the flat rock to wash his legs, saying gruffly to Podson, "Better wash that dam' mud off; it sticks like hell when it's dry."

   • 2008 December, Albert E. Cowdrey, “A Skeptical Spirit”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 115, number 6, page 109:

     Papa says you must have your Degree and a Situation as well, before we can be wed. Well, hurry on and get the dam’ degree then!

Adverb

dam' (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of damn.
   • 1915, Rudyard Kipling, Debits and Credits, Bombay: The Gresham Publishing Company Limited; London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 32:

     (These duck-shoots in the dark are dam’ dangerous, y’know.)

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:

     "Always wanted a go at the figure. Funked it. Shows what a man can do, given the right model. Dam' good model."

   • 1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 13, in Diamonds Are Forever:

     “People are so dam’ sensitive about colour around here that you can’t even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro.”