darn
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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darn 2, darned, darnation. Earliest in
darn adv. (late XVIII), used as an intensive, which Noah Webster identified with †
dern (OE.
d(i)erne) ‘concealed’, later ‘dark, drear, dim’, as in the phr.
dern and dismal, which presumably became
darn(ed) dismal; cf. var.
durn. When
darn(ed) had become a mild substitute for
damn,
darnation would readily follow. Cf. U.S.
tarnation sb., adj., adv. (XVIII), which is prob. to be assoc. with the similarly used and somewhat earlier
tarnal, aphetic form of
etarnal,
eternal.
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