goddam

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noun

An English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history, originating during the Hundred Years' War.

UncommonScrabble 11

Meanings

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noungoddam (plural goddams)

plural goddams

  1. in pluralAn English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history, originating during the Hundred Years' War.

    That is why the goddams will take Orleans. And you cannot stop them, nor ten thousand like you.

    1991, Philip George Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: Reactions to realism, page 90

goddam2

interjection
  1. uncommonUncommon spelling of goddamn.

    ‘No, Paul, not now and not in this goddam car!’

    2021, Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, Faber & Faber Limited, page 273
    2 more examples

    “[…] This sand,” he said vaguely; then he said it again, viciously, “this sand. This goddam sand. Its like a goddam fuckin desert.”

    1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 742

    The funny part was, though, we were the worst skaters on the whole goddam rink.

    1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 167

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveexpletives used informally as intensifiers

adverbexpressing anger, despair, frustration, approval, or surprise

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Englishgoddamn
  2. Frenchgoddam“English person”
  3. Englishgoddam

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

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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