dammit

English

Alternative forms

• damnit

Etymology

Univerbation of damn +‎ it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæmɪt/, /ˈdæmət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æmɪt, -æmət

Interjection

dammit

1. (mildly vulgar) Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.
   • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 234:

     "No plot! Why, dammit girl, it's all plot, woven about that most fascinating of human problems, the Electra complex!"

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:dammit

Derived terms

• dammit all to hell
• dammit to hell
• god dammit
• near as dammit

Translations

expression of anger or disappointment

Arabic: اللُّعْنَة (al-luʕna) Armenian: գրո՛ղը տանի (gróġə tani) Azerbaijani: zibilə qalsın, andıra qalsın, zəhrimara qalsın, poxa qalsın Belarusian: пра́клён (prákljon) Bulgarian: по дяволите (po djavolite) Catalan: maledicció (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 該死 / 该死 (zh) (gāisǐ), 你妹 (nǐmèi), 我靠 (zh) (wǒkào) Dutch: verdomme (nl) Esperanto: damne (eo), aĉ (eo) Finnish: pahus (fi), hemmetti, hitto vie French: merde (fr) German: verdammt (de), verdammt noch mal Greek: να πάρει ο διάβολος (na párei o diávolos), να πάρει ο διάολος (na párei o diáolos), διάβολε (el) (diávole), διάολε (el) (diáole), γαμώτο (el) (gamóto), γαμώ το (gamó to) Hebrew: לְעֲזָאזֵל (he) (l'azazél), דאמיט (dámit) Icelandic: fjandinn (is), andskotinn (is), djöfullinn (is), helvítis (is) Indonesian: sialan (id), sialan bener, kurang ajar (id) Ingrian: cortta Italian: merda (it), cazzo (it), dannazione (it), cavolo (it), cribbio (it) Japanese: しまった (ja) (shimatta), くそ (ja) (kuso) Korean: 제기랄 (ko) (jegiral) Latvian: sasodīts Limburgish: noondemieljaar Macedonian: по ѓаво́лите (po ǵavólite), про́клетство (prókletstvo), еба́го (ebágo) Malay: sial (ms), jahanam Persian: لعنتی (fa) (la'nati) Polish: kurde (pl), kuźwa (pl), cholera (pl), w mordę jeża (pl) Portuguese: porra (pt), merda (pt), raisparta, maldição (pt) Romanian: băga-mi-aș! (ro), la naiba! Russian: чёрт побери́ (čort poberí), чёрт возьми́ (čort vozʹmí), прокля́тие (ru) (prokljátije) Serbo-Croatian: kvragu, ђаволи Spanish: mierda (es), joder (es), maldita sea, maldición (es), ñaca (es) (Chile) Swedish: fy tusan, fy fan (sv), fy sjutton (sv), jäklar (sv) Turkish: kahrolsun, lanet olsun Welsh: wfft

Noun

dammit (plural dammits)

1. The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.
   • 1935, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins:

     ... my life at Cannes was as blameless as dammit.

   • 1938, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters:

     ... and I may say that I was as limpid as dammit.

   • 2006, Dewey Lambdin, A King's Trade, page 294:

     Get us about, quick as dammit! Clew up tops'ls, there!

   • 2007, Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh, page 14:

     I mean I'd banked on getting that permission, I'd as near as dammit been promised I'd get it. Can you wonder I was fed up to my back teeth?

2. A fastener used for military medals, name tags or other things that are pinned to a uniform; a clutch, a clutchback.
   • 2022 July 18, Perry Muse, Morbid Thoughts and the Domino Effect: Passing Thoughts During Cancer, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN, page 21:

     We couldn't find enough dammits (a cap that goes over the pin to hold it on). We were lucky to find our name tags.

References

• 2010 December 2, Amy Efaw, Battle Dress, Penguin, →ISBN:

  dammits: clasps on the back of name tags, BRASS, or service ribbons which are pinned to the uniform.