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consarn en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling) Pronunciation spelling of concern.
    alt of concern
    • Howsever, sir, that is a subject that need give us no consarn. 1847, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter IV, in The Crater; or, Vulcan’s Peak. A Tale of the Pacific. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Burgess, Stringer & Co., →OCLC, page 55:

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consarns Number=Plur lexicographic

consarn en · VERB · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling) Pronunciation spelling of concern.
    alt of concern
    • There isn't no place," said Phoebe, "where there isn't somethin' that Miss Panney wants to consarn herself in." 1898, Frank Richard Stockton, The Girl at Cobhurst:

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consarning Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
consarned Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
consarned Tense=Past lexicographic
consarns Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

consarn en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

Alteration of confound.

Meanings

  1. (as imperative, in oaths, no-past, no-present-participle) Confound.
    • Why, consarn you, Anderson Crow, I didn't have any spare children to leave around on doorsteps. 2008, George Barr McCutcheon, The Daughter of Anderson Crow, page 257:
    • Consarn ye, take thet ! " And he banged each of the inoffensive animals in the sides with the stock of his gun 1898, Edward Stratemeyer, The minute boys of Lexington, page 33:
    • He came to camp follerin' this cat and a holloring, 'Here kitty-kitty-kitty' all over the consarned place. 2004, Cynthia Queen, The Major's Renegade, page 128:
    • Consarn it, Jarius, you are a hog, and no mistake. 1870, George Melville Baker, Little brown jug, page 17:
    • "Leggo my whiskers, consarn ye!" it shouted. 1913, Janet Aldridge, The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas:

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consarned Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic