Meanings
- datedeuphemisticdang; darn (a mild expression of contempt)
"Hang it, you might say I only took her on out of kindness - poor woman having to put up with a beetling bughound like Peabody. But it's taught me a lesson; no more kindness to married women."
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 821 more example
If it had been a day or two earlier, I don't know what I'd have done - very likely the same in the end - but this day I could at least tell myself: "Well, hang it, there can't be a lot of harm if I use common sense. After all, the bandages are due to come off today. I'll risk it."
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 15
Translations
Welsh cebystr iddo fe/fo/hi
- cebystr iddo fe/fo/hioath
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