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During the 18th century and until about 1930, the use of damn as an expletive was considered a severe profanity and was mostly avoided in print. The expression "not worth a damn" was recorded in 1802. [1] The use of damn as an adjective, short for damned, was recorded in 1775. Damn Yankee (a Southern US term for "Northerner") dates back to 1812.
or, "I just washed the damn(ed) car!" or, "The damn(ed) dog won't stop barking!" (The word "damned" is usually only used in North America, whereas in other English speaking countries the word is simply "damn".) This is simply not true. "damned" and "God-damned" may have fallen out of fashion but it is certainly not US-specific usage.
Damn usually refers to damnation, a condemnation, usually by a god; ... Damned (disambiguation) Damnation (disambiguation) This page was last edited on ...
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. — "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" by Alexander Pope (1688–1744) [5]
Damnation, an American period drama that premiered in November 2017; Damnation (documentary), a 2014 American documentary about the changing attitudes in the United States towards the large dams in the country
An expletive attributive is an adjective or adverb (or adjectival or adverbial phrase) that does not contribute to the meaning of a sentence, but is used to intensify its emotional force. Often such words or phrases are regarded as profanity or "bad language", though there are also inoffensive expletive attributives.
Amidst our people here is comeThe madness of the dance.In every town there now are someWho fall upon a trance.It drives them ever night and day,They scarcely stop for breath,Till some have dropped ...
A more comic effect can be rendered by traditional adjective djävulsk "devilish", or its expressive variant djävulusisk. Jävla also derived a deponent verb jävlas "to be a jerk": Han jävlas med mig means "He's yanking my chain/fucking with me". Commonly used taboo deformations for jävel or jävla include. jädra; jäkla; jämra - lit. "moan"