Etymology

goddam

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Today it means: An English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history, originating during the Hundred Years' War. Full definition →

French goddam ← English goddamn
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The story

  1. English · derived fromgoddamn
  2. French · borrowed fromgoddam“English person”
  3. English todaygoddam

From French goddam (“English person”), from English goddamn.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.