consarned

[ kon-sahrnd, kuhn- ]

adjective

, Older Use.

1. confounded; damned.

Word History and Origins

Origin of consarned¹

1835–45, Americanism; alteration of concerned, used as a euphemism for confounded

Example Sentences

I will not find one only to discover a consarned, rassa-frassin, galdang motorcycle in there.

From Washington Post

Thurman, expressing his frustration at how little he knew about Hughes’s private self, wrote to him once, “You are in the final analysis the most consarned and diabolical creature, to say nothing of being either the most egregiously simple or excessively complex person I know.”

From The New Yorker

And what of those consarned lanyards?

From Seattle Times

It's a sure thing as far as we're consarned.

From Project Gutenberg

In your case, as you were nohow consarned in the raid on the mine, it would be different, an' I 'lows you might find a way o' doin' the job easy an' slick.

From Project Gutenberg