¡Casi me sacas un ojo damn sb/sth with faint praise v expr (criticize by praising unenthusiastically) lanzar eufemismos loc verb: Damn you interj: offensive (anger, contempt. I’d guess that when you consider Latin roots, damn and Hell are the oldest of the English swear words.Įven though it’s not as bad as a lot of swear words, I wouldn’t say damn in front of my parents, at least, not without the word Hoover in front of it. damn near do sth expr: slang (almost) casi adv : estar a punto de loc verb : Be careful with that cane You damn near took my eye out Ten cuidado con ese bastón. According to the dictionary, the first usage of damn can be found in the 13 th century, and its Latin roots go much further than that. Like most bad words, damn has been around longer than most people think. Maybe I was born a generation late for that. You can even halfway invoke God by saying “Dagnabbit!” or “Goshdurnit” or “Guldernit.” Oddly enough, I’ve never heard anybody say “Durnit!” or “Nabbit!” by themselves. It’s okay if you say “Darn it!” or “Dang it!” in public. It’s easy to replace damn with a fake word that doesn’t bother anybody. They could also do that with “shee-it.” Extending a four-letter swear word into two syllables is the best. A junior high teacher years ago used to say “Hot diggety damn!” whenever he got excited, and that was fun, but I never did that in public.ĭecades ago, some of my friends pronounced damn with two syllables so that it came out “day-um.” That usually meant that they were impressed with something. It’s probably too late to say “Heaven help me.” Then again, some religions say it’s never too late for “Heaven help me.” I hope I don’t need to find out.ĭamn isn’t the most fun of the curse words to say, but it has some fun variations. What do you say in Hell when you stub your toes or nail a finger? If you say “Damn!” or “Dammit,” it’s too late because everything down there is damned already. Maybe part of their eternal torture is to stub their toes and hammer nails into their thumbs for all of eternity. Maybe the tortured souls down there need tables, nails, and hammers too. If a table ends up in Hell for eternity, the table doesn’t care. They’re nonliving things, so they don’t care. If I stub my toe on a table or hammer a nail into my thumb, it’s okay to damn the table or hammer or nail. I’ve done it a few times in my life, and I’ve always regretted it, and I’ve always privately asked the higher power not to take my earlier request literally. It’s one thing to damn somebody yourself, but when you invoke God to damn somebody, that’s serious. I haven’t ranked profanity from worst to least offensive, but God in front of damn would be in the top one or two. Putting God in front of damn is the worst of the worst of profanity. But people damn each other for stuff like minor road infractions, and I don’t think anybody should suffer eternal damnation in Hell just because of a rude traffic incident. If people said damn occasionally, then I wouldn’t be so concerned. Hell is a horrible place to go, and it’s for eternity, so that should be reserved for only a select few. Hell is also thought of as profanity (though I disagree), and when a bad word implies another bad word, then it’s really a bad word.įor one thing, it’s pretty bad to curse somebody to Hell. It’s four letters, which is a sign that it’s a bad word, and it means that you’re cursing somebody or something to Hell. It’s not the worst of the profane words, but most people wouldn’t want to say it in public. The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.Of course, damn is a bad word.Swedish: fy tusan, fy fan (sv), fy sjutton, jäklar (sv).Spanish: mierda (es), joder (es), maldita sea, maldición (es).Portuguese: porra (pt), merda (pt), raispartaǃ, maldição (pt).Polish: kurde (pl), kuźwa, cholera (pl), w mordę jeża.Japanese: しまった ( shimatta ), くそ (ja) ( kuso ).Italian: merda (it), cazzo (it), dannazione (it), cavolo (it), cribbio (it).Indonesian: sialan (id), sialan bener, kurang ajar (id).Damn usually refers to damnation, a condemnation, usually by a god. German: verdammt (de), verdammt noch mal.Finnish: pahus (fi), hemmetti, hitto vie.
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