goldarn
goldarn Lexical Profile
goldarn Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
North American Damned, confounded, or cursed; used informally as a mild, folksy intensifier to express annoyance, frustration, or emphasis.
"The old tractor refuses to start whenever the goldarn weather turns cold."
• adverb
North American Extremely, thoroughly, or very; used informally as a mild intensifier.
"It is goldarn hot out in the fields today."
• interjection
North American Used as a mild, folksy exclamation to express annoyance, irritation, or surprise.
"Goldarn, I left my reading glasses back at the farmhouse again!"
• verb
North American To damn or curse mildly (used almost exclusively in exclamatory expressions of annoyance such as 'goldarn it').
"Goldarn it, the gate latch is rusted shut again!"
• Rhymes for goldarn
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in 19th-century American English as a minced oath altering 'goddamn', combining 'gol' (a phonetic distortion of 'God') and 'darn' (a euphemism for 'damn').