tarnation









tarnation


interjection

  1. damnation.

noun

  1. damnation; hell (used as a euphemism): Where in tarnation is that boy?

adverb

  1. damned.

noun

  1. a euphemism for damnation

n.1784, American English alteration of darnation (itself a euphemism for damnation), influenced by tarnal (1790), from phrase by the Eternal (God).

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