dod-
(dod n.1), used as an intensive with verbs and pa. pples. U.S. colloq. See also dodgast v. dod-rot v.
| 1829 Yankee Apr. 131/2 Dod burn the boy! what's he arter? 1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 231 I'll be dod blamed if I do. 1883 ‘Mark Twain’ Life on Miss. 220 He ejaculated: ‘Well, I'll be dod-derned.’ Ibid., ‘Dod-dern’ was the nearest he ventured to..swearing. 1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan xiii. 164 ‘Dod-blasted postage stamp of a pelt, ’he grumbled. |