A vulgar imprecation.
[1834. I’ll be dad shamed if it ain’t all cowardice, and I hate to see it practised.—Caruthers, ‘The Kentuckian in New-York,’ i. 216 (N.Y.).]
1845. Dadfetch me if I’s the chap to be fooled with petticoats. Didn’t I see boots and trowser’s legs under them gowns?—W. T. Thompson, ‘Chronicles of Pineville,’ p. 67 (Phila.).
1845. I knows the Curloos like a book, and I’ll be dadfetcht if ther was a sign of a Curloo in that buggy.—Id., p. 74.
1845. “Oh, yes,” exclaimed Si, as he and his friends were busied in righting the cart—“dadfetch your everlastin’ picter.”—Id., p. 114.
1845. See CHINKAPIN.
