dashed

dashed

dashed (comparative more dashed, superlative most dashed)

(of a line) Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
(British, dated, informal, euphemistic) Damned.
It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.
- 1824 May 15, “Kiddywinkle History, No. II”, in Blackwood's Magazine, page 540:
  I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf.
- 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 8, in Uncle Fred in the Springtime:
  I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff.

Dashed in the sense of "damned" is associated with the old-fashioned British upper class.

of a line: broken — see broken

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