"Dadgum"......?

[momrek06]

Last night I was watching an episode of Intervention. The young man going through the intervention had a very thick accent. It was so strong the show actually was using subtitles every time he spoke. He kept saying "dadgum"!!

I am here in Beantown and yes, I know we have a very interesting accent as well.... ...but what STATE would he be from saying "dadgum"????

 

[Tazicket]

We say it a lot down here in the South. (At least, I've heard it said all my life)

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Last night I was watching an episode of Intervention. The young man going through the intervention had a very thick accent. It was so strong the show actually was using subtitles every time he spoke. He kept saying "dadgum"!!

I am here in Beantown and yes, I know we have a very interesting accent as well.... ...but what STATE would he be from saying "dadgum"????

You're liable to hear that anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line. I'm in NC and it's part of the vernacular.

 

[Art Vandalay]

Only time I've ever heard it is when I lived in Alabama.

 

[momrek06]

I should had ADDED to my post....WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

 

[goofy's friends]

It's like a swear word when you don't want to use a swear word!!!

 

[Art Vandalay]

I should had ADDED to my post....WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

My impression was that it was intended as something to avoid saying "*******"

Hah... didn't think that'd actually get filtered out. Oh well... as a replacement for a curse relating to the almighty

 

[Tazicket]

It's like a swear word when you don't want to use a swear word!!!

Pretty much. I use it in the same way I'd use "Darn it!"

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

I should had ADDED to my post....WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

It's an adjective that is typically delivered with a scowl and a spit
"I ran over a dadgum nail and now I have a flat tire"

-OR-

It's an expletive expressing disappointment
[after Driver X blows engine in NASCAR race] "Dadgum!"

 

[momrek06]

Yes, now when thinking of the show, he was pretty mad and fired up when he would use dadgum. I would have not had a CLUE as to what he was saying or even how to spell dadgum if not for the subtitles. I asked my DH where the young man was from and he had no clue either.

Thanks!!!

 

[Sonya]

You hear it here in MO too, usually southern MO.

 

[HunnyPots]

I'm in Texas and use it frequently. I wasn't aware that it was not a common slang word. I thought everybody said it!

 

[ChrisFL]

I think it's Bobby Bowden's favorite word

 

[ElizK]

It's a word I use on a regular basis! Keeps me out of the hard-core swear words. Usually.

 

[daisax]

It's a polite variation of "gumDAD!"

 

[Brer_Papa]

Dagnabbit! This is one interesting thread!

 

[DisMN]

Dagnabbit CLYDE!!

I've heard more dagnabbits than dadgums up here.

 

[Mr Man]

tilyawhutthatdangoldadgumboyaintrighty'know.....

 

[momrek06]

I'm in Texas and use it frequently. I wasn't aware that it was not a common slang word. I thought everybody said it!

I have never heard it used here in the Northeast.

 

[kaybracon]

In some old (18xx) books I've read, it is spelled 'dadgom'; somewhere I've heard that it came about as a rearrangement of the letters in GD.