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dash it

dash it interjection: damn it!

Interjection

  1. (dated, euphemistic, informal) damn it!
    • A party of his friends had met in the evening to talk over his merits, and to drink, in Scottish phrase, his Bonallie. While, about the witching hour, they were crowning a solemn bumper to his health, a figure burst into the room, muffled in a seaman's cloak and travelling cap covered with snow...1811, Walter Scott, “John Leyden, M.D.”, in The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [Stevenson & Co. for] Robert Cadell; London: Houlston & Stoneman...
    • Dash it all! I thought to myself, they can’t trade without using some kind of craft on that lot of fresh water - steam-boats!1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198

Questions about dash it

What does dash it mean?
Dash it means damn it!
What part of speech is dash it?
Dash it is an interjection.

Words near dash it in the dictionary

  1. dash cam
  2. dash cams
  3. dash case
  4. dash cherries
  5. dash down
  6. dash it
  7. dash it all
  8. dash off
  9. dash on
  10. dash someone's hopes
  11. dash'd

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