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doggonit

doggonit phrase: an expression that shows mild or strong frustration about something.

Phrase

doggonit

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) An expression that shows mild or strong frustration about something.
    • Doggonit, she made me waste my doggone pecan candy.
    Synonyms:
    goldarned

Synonyms of doggonit

Forms of doggonit

alternative formdoggone it

Origin of doggonit

Euphemistic variant (with metathesis of the consonants "g" and "d") of the phrase goddamn (doggone) + it.

Questions about doggonit

What does doggonit mean?
Doggonit means an expression that shows mild or strong frustration about something.
What part of speech is doggonit?
Doggonit is a phrase.

Words near doggonit in the dictionary

  1. doggoneder
  2. doggonedest
  3. doggones
  4. doggonest
  5. doggoning
  6. doggonit
  7. doggos
  8. doggrel
  9. doggrelize
  10. doggrelized
  11. doggrelizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doggonit (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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