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goddam en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From French goddam (“English person”), from English goddamn.

Meanings

  1. (in-plural) An English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history, originating during the Hundred Years' War.
    • That is why the goddams will take Orleans. And you cannot stop them, nor ten thousand like you. 1991, Philip George Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: Reactions to realism, page 90:

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goddam en · INTJ · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, uncommon) Uncommon spelling of goddamn.
    alt of goddamn
    • “[…] This sand,” he said vaguely; then he said it again, viciously, “this sand. This goddam sand. Its like a goddam fuckin desert.” 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 742:
    • The funny part was, though, we were the worst skaters on the whole goddam rink. 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 167:
    • ‘No, Paul, not now and not in this goddam car!’ 2021, Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, Faber & Faber Limited, page 273: