tarnations
tarnations is the plural of tarnation.
Meaning of tarnation
Noun
tarnation (countable and uncountable, plural tarnations)
- The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.
- What in tarnation is going on?
- Someone or something that causes trouble; troublemaker.
- I would say more, but RADLEY's come up to tell me I must go and meet that tarnation BANCROFT.1848, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Mark Lemon, Punch - Volumes 12-15, page 162
Interjection
- Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.
- Girl (wryly, as she moves to r. of Marnitski, looking at all the medicine). Oh, gracious me ! Oh, you poor thing ! King. Tarnations and thunderbolts !1947, Paul Vincent Carroll, Guy Robertson, Plays for juvenile performers, page 22
- Hell and tarnations, I've known them for muddleheads and blockheads half my life, and firsthand, but I sure didn't expect them to take leave of their senses, insulting our office of President, making our Party into a white demagogue's party, slapping the Negro vote in the face.1964, Irving Wallace, The Man, page 537
Questions about tarnations
- What does tarnations mean?
- Tarnations means used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.
- What is tarnations the plural of?
- Tarnations is the plural of tarnation.
- What part of speech is tarnations?
- Tarnations is an interjection.
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