Meaning

2 senses

  1. (euphemistic)A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration.

    I don't give a dang.

  2. (humorous, rare)A dam (structure placed around a body of water), used because of the homophony between dam and damn.

Examples

13 sentences

  1. It's because you're so dang hot.

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  2. Ziri couldn't see a dang thing out there.

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  3. Get off my lawn, you dang kids!

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  4. You dang kids better get off my lawn!

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  5. Coffee is so dang expensive.

    ruКофе, нахер, такое дорогое. — corvard

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Origin

First attested in c. 1797, a minced oath of damn.

First attested in c. 1797, a minced oath of damn.

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Forms

plural: dangs
Singulardang
Pluraldangs

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dandruffdandydangerA2dangerousA2dangerouslyB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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