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daggone

daggone is the alternative form of doggone.

Meaning of doggone

Verb

doggone (third-person singular simple present doggones, present participle doggoning, simple past and past participle doggoned)

  1. (US, dialectal) To damn; to curse.
    • […] doggoning something or other with deep sincerity.1915, The Scoop, volume 4, page 247

Forms of daggone

superlativedaggonest

Questions about daggone

What is daggone the alternative form of?
Daggone is the alternative form of doggone.

Words near daggone in the dictionary

  1. daggle-tailed
  2. daggle-tails
  3. daggled
  4. daggles
  5. daggling
  6. daggone
  7. daggonest
  8. Daggs
  9. Daggses
  10. daggum
  11. daggummit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daggone (page history and authors); doggone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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