Slang, Vulgar Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.
"No plot! Why, dammit girl, it's all plot, woven about that most fascinating of human problems, the Electra complex!"1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 234:
Rahneesh: For the last time, my name isn’t Rahneesh! My parents named me Esther, dammit!2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 29:
The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.
... my life at Cannes was as blameless as dammit.1935, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins:
... and I may say that I was as limpid as dammit.1938, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters:
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Get us about, quick as dammit! Clew up tops'ls, there!2006, Dewey Lambdin, A King's Trade, page 294:
I mean I'd banked on getting that permission, I'd as near as dammit been promised I'd get it. Can you wonder I was fed up to my back teeth?2007, Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh, page 14:
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A fastener used for military medals, name tags or other things that are pinned to a uniform; a clutch, a clutchback.
We couldn't find enough dammits (a cap that goes over the pin to hold it on). We were lucky to find our name tags.2022 July 18, Perry Muse, Morbid Thoughts and the Domino Effect: Passing Thoughts During Cancer, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN, page 21: