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English
Etymology
Univerbation of damn + it.
Pronunciation
Interjection
dammit
- (mildly vulgar) Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
expression of anger or disappointment
- Arabic: اللُّعْنَة (al-luʕna)
- Armenian: գրո՛ղը տանի (gróġə tani)
- Belarusian: пра́клён (prákljon)
- Bulgarian: по дяволите (po djavolite)
- Catalan: maledicció (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 該死／该死 (zh) (gāisǐ), 你妹 (nǐmèi), 我靠 (zh) (wǒkào)
- Dutch: verdomme (nl)
- Esperanto: damne (eo), aĉ (eo)
- Finnish: pahus (fi), hemmetti, hitto vie
- French: merde (fr)
- German: verdammt (de), verdammt noch mal
- Greek: να πάρει ο διάβολος (na párei o diávolos), να πάρει ο διάολος (na párei o diáolos), διάβολε (el) (diávole), διάολε (el) (diáole), γαμώτο (el) (gamóto), γαμώ το (gamó to)
- Hebrew: לְעֲזָאזֵל (he) (l'azazél)
- Indonesian: sialan (id), sialan bener, kurang ajar (id)
- Ingrian: cortta
- Italian: merda (it), cazzo (it), dannazione (it), cavolo (it), cribbio (it)
- Japanese: しまった (shimatta), くそ (ja) (kuso)
- Korean: 제기랄 (ko) (jegiral)
- Latvian: sasodīts
- Limburgish: noondemieljaar
- Macedonian: по ѓаво́лите (po ǵavólite), про́клетство (prókletstvo), еба́го (ebágo)
- Malay: sial (ms), jahanam
- Persian: لعنتی (fa) (la'nati)
- Polish: kurde (pl), kuźwa (pl), cholera (pl), w mordę jeża (pl)
- Portuguese: porra (pt), merda (pt), raisparta, maldição (pt)
- Romanian: băga-mi-aș! (ro), la naiba!
- Russian: чёрт побери́ (čort poberí), чёрт возьми́ (čort vozʹmí), прокля́тие (ru) (prokljátije)
- Serbo-Croatian: kvragu, ђаволи
- Spanish: mierda (es), joder (es), maldita sea, maldición (es)
- Swedish: fy tusan, fy fan (sv), fy sjutton (sv), jäklar (sv)
- Turkish: kahrolsun, lanet olsun
- Welsh: wfft
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Noun
dammit (plural dammits)
- The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.
2006, Dewey Lambdin, A King's Trade, page 294:Get us about, quick as dammit! Clew up tops'ls, there!
2007, Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh, page 14:I mean I'd banked on getting that permission, I'd as near as dammit been promised I'd get it. Can you wonder I was fed up to my back teeth?
- A fastener used for military medals, name tags or other things that are pinned to a uniform; a clutch, a clutchback.
2022 July 18, Perry Muse, Morbid Thoughts and the Domino Effect: Passing Thoughts During Cancer, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN, page 21:We couldn't find enough dammits (a cap that goes over the pin to hold it on). We were lucky to find our name tags.
References
2010 December 2, Amy Efaw, Battle Dress, Penguin, →ISBN:dammits: clasps on the back of name tags, BRASS, or service ribbons which are pinned to the uniform.