adj. (American).—A euphemistic oath.—See OATHS.

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  1852.  T. H. GLADSTONE, The Englishman in Kansas, p. 46. If there’s a DOG-GAUNED Abolitionist aboard [this boat], I should like to see him, that I should. I’m the man to put a chunk o’ lead into his woolly head, right off.

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  1873.  CARLETON, Farm Ballads, p. 80.

        But when that choir got up to sing,
  I couldn’t catch a word;
They sung the most DOG-GONDEST thing
  A body ever heard!

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  1879.  EGGLESTON, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, iv. I never knowed but one gal in my life as had ciphered into fractions, and she was so DOG-ON stuck up that she turned up her nose one night at a apple-peelin’ bekase I tuck a sheet off the bed to splice out the table-cloth, which was ruther short.

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