tarnations

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interjection

Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of tarnation
interjection
  1. Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.

    Tarnations! You should be a cloth merchant with that blanket You're making it a hot thing and I'm cold.

    1971, Pamana, page 40
    2 more examples

    Girl (wryly, as she moves to r. of Marnitski, looking at all the medicine). Oh, gracious me ! Oh, you poor thing ! King. Tarnations and thunderbolts !

    1947, Paul Vincent Carroll, Guy Robertson, Plays for juvenile performers, page 22

    Hell and tarnations, I've known them for muddleheads and blockheads half my life, and firsthand, but I sure didn't expect them to take leave of their senses, insulting our office of President, making our Party into a white demagogue's party, slapping the Negro vote in the face.

    1964, Irving Wallace, The Man, page 537
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APA

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Chicago

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