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Adjective

dam' (not comparable)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of damn.
    • 1924, Rudyard Kipling, The Janeites:
      “Every dam' thing about Jane 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.”

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