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Definition: Goddamn |
GoddamnAdjective1. Used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!". 2. Expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance". Adverb1. (intensifier) extremely; "you are goddamn right!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goddamn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Synonyms: GoddamnSynonyms: blame (adj), blamed (adj), blasted (adj), blessed (adj), damn (adj), damned (adj), darned (adj), deuced (adj), everlasting (adj), infernal (adj), goddam (adv), goddamned (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Goddamn |
| English words defined with "goddamn": damn ♦ goddam, goddamned. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Tired of this war, tired of fighting I'm tired of the ship, being cold, eating the same goddamn goop everyday (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) I have to piss sitting down like a goddamn girlie-girl every fifteen minutes (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Thats all it takes really pressure and time That, and big goddamn poster (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) No. But if you wanna blow your goddamn head off, go ahead, be my guest (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire) Hawaii? Goddamn it, Bill, I'm supposed to be in California (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) | |
Lyrics | My mama wanna watch that TV all goddamn night (AM Radio; performing artist: Everclear) Goddamn, well I declare, have you seen the like ("Uncle John's Band"; performing artist: The Grateful Dead) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Elizabeth Janeway | The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Goddamn it, they got me trapped |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I would love to be in the middle of a live conversation with someone and be able to push a star-key on their chest to fast forward to the goddamn point of their story. |
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| "Goddamn" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Goddamn" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 85.71% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Interjection | 14.29% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ghetto goddamn name rock shiznit solid | 9 |
goddamn | 9 |
generator ghetto goddamn name rock shiznit solid | 3 |
goddamn uncle | 3 |
ghetto goddamn rock shiznit solid | 2 |
goddamn mississippi | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "goddamn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | fichu. (various references) | |
Hungarian | istenverte (bally, blankety-blank, bloody, damned, darn, dashed, doggone, durn, frigging, god forsaken, goddam, godforsaken), feneette (dashed), átkozott (accursed, bally, bang, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, bloody, cursed, curst, damn, damned, darn, dratted, durn, goddam, perishing). (various references) | |
Italian | dannato (bloody, damned, goddamned, ruddy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oddamngay.(various references) | |
Russian | чертовский (bally, blinking, deuced, devilish, god-awful, helluva). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งประ"าม (goddam, goddamned), "่า. (various references) | |
Turkish | kahrolası (bugger, bugger you, confound him, confound it, confounded, cursed, damn it, damn you, damned, flaming, goddamned, godforsaken, heck, ruddy, sod it), allah'ın cezası (bleeding, blinking, blithering, bugger, drat it, drat you, goddamned, ungodly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goddamn": goddamned, goddamning, goddamns. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "goddamn" (pronounced gÄ"dda'm) |
| 6 | g Ä" d d a' m | goddam. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: goddam. | |
-2 letters: among, dogma, donga, gonad, mango, monad, nomad. | |
-3 letters: agon, dado, dago, damn, dang, dona, dong, goad, mano, moan, noma, ogam. | |
-4 letters: add, ado, ago, and, dad, dag, dam, dog, dom, don, gad, gam, gan, goa, god, mad, mag, man, moa, mod, mog, mon, nag, nam, nod, nog, nom, odd. | |
-5 letters: ad, ag, am. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-g-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: goddamns. | |
+2 letters: goddamned. | |
+3 letters: dendrogram, diamonding, goddamming, goddamning, ramrodding. | |
+4 letters: dendrograms, gormandised, gormandized. | |
+5 letters: demodulating, gourmandized, misdiagnosed, nondemanding. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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