Meanings
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- USeuphemisticEuphemistic form of goddamned.
I was the best dadgum calendar salesman there ever was.
2009, Roy Williams, Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court, →ISBN, page 823 more examples
We wore the dadgummest colors you ever seen in your life.
2004, Loretta Lynn, You're Cookin' It Country: My Favorite Recipes and Memories, →ISBN, page 12God bless the Army and God bless our liberty / And dadgum the rest of it all
2005, Merle Haggard, “America First”, in Chicago WindWell, let me tell you, I was in a nosebee—bleed seat – I think in the top seat in the whole dadgum Omni building [laughs] – and I— all I could see was this little speck [laughs] down on the stage with a cape on, so I knew it had to be Elvis [laughs].
2020 April 29, Paula Deen, “Quarantine Cooking - Sandwiches for the Kids”, in YouTube
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Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Mostly a spoonerism of goddamn.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
dadgum. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dadgum
“dadgum.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dadgum. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dadgum,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dadgum.
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