consarn

plural consarns

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of concern.

   Howsever, sir, that is a subject that need give us no consarn.

   1847, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter IV, in The Crater; or, Vulcan’s Peak. A Tale of the Pacific. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Burgess, Stringer & Co., →OCLC, page 55

present singular third person consarns · participle present consarning · participle past consarned · past consarned

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of concern.

   There isn't no place," said Phoebe, "where there isn't somethin' that Miss Panney wants to consarn herself in."

   1898, Frank Richard Stockton, The Girl at Cobhurst

participle past consarned

1. no pastno present participleConfound.

   "Leggo my whiskers, consarn ye!" it shouted.

   1913, Janet Aldridge, The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas

   4 more examples

   Consarn it, Jarius, you are a hog, and no mistake.

   1870, George Melville Baker, Little brown jug, page 17

   Consarn ye, take thet ! " And he banged each of the inoffensive animals in the sides with the stock of his gun

   1898, Edward Stratemeyer, The minute boys of Lexington, page 33

   He came to camp follerin' this cat and a holloring, 'Here kitty-kitty-kitty' all over the consarned place.

   2004, Cynthia Queen, The Major's Renegade, page 128

   Why, consarn you, Anderson Crow, I didn't have any spare children to leave around on doorsteps.

   2008, George Barr McCutcheon, The Daughter of Anderson Crow, page 257