dodgast, v. U.S. colloq.
(ˈdɒdgɑːst, -gæst)
[f. dod- + gast, prob. for blast v. 10. Cf. dod-rot v.]
In imprecatory and expletive use: to ‘confound’, ‘curse’. Chiefly in ˈdodgasted ppl. a.
| 1888 Detroit Free Press (Farmer), It's a dodgasted funny thing,..but it's a fact. 1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan ix. 103 What can we do when our cayuses are so dod-gasted tired? 1909 N.Y. Observer 2 Sept. 319/2 Well, dodgast you, get in the stern there. 1914 W. J. Locke Fort. Youth xxi, It's a pity, sonny—a dodgasted pity! |