"Dadgum"......?

[Pooh's Pixie]

OP, I am in Boston too and never hear it up here. I was watching Intervention too and boy was I glad they used subtitles...I had no idea what they were saying!

 

[momrek06]

OP, I am in Boston too and never hear it up here. I was watching Intervention too and boy was I glad they used subtitles...I had no idea what they were saying!

I mean I will say I have some good friends here in MA that talk really fast and unless you are a Bostonian you would not have a clue as to what they are saying...and same for this young man last night from (I am guessing) the South.

 

[DemonLlama]

somewhere I've heard that it came about as a rearrangement of the letters in GD.

Yes, that's what I was thinking, too.

We Southerners (ok, I just moved from Texas after 37 years, so I still count myself among them) have very inventive and colorful ways to "not" swear when we really are.

 

[NotUrsula]

It's a euphemism for God d***. It was created by reversing the syllables and using two words that sound kind of similar but are not quite those.

You will also hear Dag nabbit! or dadburned in parts of the South and West on occasion. Same expression in terms of meaning.

I had a friend in HS whose parents told her to make up her own curse word if she wanted to use one. She picked "frotch".

 

[cristit14]

I have said it all my life, along with dagnabbit from time to time. I grew up an AF brat, but lived most of my youth in the South.

 

[Mickey&Donald]

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"????

How funny -- I watched that episode too! That guy was from Alabama, FYI.

Here in Maryland, as we are below the Mason-Dixon, I hear "dadgum" fairly often. And "dagnabbit" has become part of my vocabulary. Never thought I'd say such things...

 

[Buckalew11]

These are all words I hear at least one of them every day here in TN.

 

[AUdisfan]

tilyawhutthatdangoldadgumboyaintrighty'know.....

 

[1rockinmamato2]

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

You really didn't think that word would be filtered out?

 

[Mr Man]

You really didn't think that word would be filtered out?

I think he was "*******" countin' on it dadgum it.......

 

[fostrmom2mny]

This Okie uses it sometimes as well.
An Okie is someone who lives in Oklahoma.

 

[cheerful chickadee]

I hadn't heard it either until I watched that episode of Intervention

 

[Diznygrl]

It's not something we say here in California, however I have heard the term before. Most notably from Mater in the movie 'Cars' (Larry the Cable Guy).

 

[goofy's friends]

This Okie uses it sometimes as well.
An Okie is someone who lives in Oklahoma.

I'm an Okie born and proud, but moved to the Northwest and accidentally said it--boy, did I get some funny looks!! And I was working so hard to fit in!!!

I didn't, however, know its origin--I think I'll try to break that habit!

 

[darlak]

Are you talking about Brooks, the kid in the wheelchair? I think he was from Oklahoma. He went to rehab in Alabama. His rehab was actually in Bessemer, the same town where I work, at a place called The Foundry.