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doggone

[dawg-gawn, -gon, dog-] / ˈdɔgˈgɔn, -ˈgɒn, ˈdɒg- /




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Let’s just say there’s a whole lot of doggone fun to have here.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025

And I was like, ‘Ooh I’m gonna call this doggone number, I’ve been cheated on.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they’re doing a doggone good job, which I’m very thankful for,” tight end Logan Thomas said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

And, doggone it, Palin appears to have a puncher’s chance of winning.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2022

“Aw, shucks, Mr. Lewis, I swear, but I’d feel a lot better if I could take a doggone nap.”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

"My nevvy, Paddy, Peter, the doggonest young scamp an old sea-horse ever tried to raise," Rouse bellowed.

From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham

This has been the doggonest Fourth of July I ever spent, and as a result I am in much trouble.

From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dick Dorgan

Ain't dat de doggonest luck in de wide worl'!

From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington

Brigadier General William L. Roberts, until recently head of the 500-man U.S. military mission in Korea, had called the Korean army "the best doggoned shooting army outside the United States."

From Time Magazine Archive

An' I'm doggoned if I'd be so all-fired amazed if everything come out fur the best.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson

“He was always sayin’ dad was hookin’ his doggoned cattle.

From The Range Boss by Frank Earle Schoonover

I meant to have it done before but there's so doggoned much to do here it slipped my mind.

From The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery by Willard F. Baker

"Well, I call that a doggoned shame!" and Jarvis started again for the stairs.

From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Charles Goddard




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