goddam
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From French goddam (“English person”), from English goddamn.
Noun
[edit]goddam (plural goddams)
- (Gallicism, chiefly in the plural) An English person, from the perspective of a French person or in the context of French history, originating during the Hundred Years' War.
- 1991, Philip George Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: Reactions to realism, page 90:
- That is why the goddams will take Orleans. And you cannot stop them, nor ten thousand like you.
Etymology 2
[edit]Interjection
[edit]goddam
- (uncommon) Alternative spelling of goddamn
- 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 742:
- “[…] This sand,” he said vaguely; then he said it again, viciously, “this sand. This goddam sand. Its like a goddam fuckin desert.”
- 2021, Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, Faber & Faber Limited, page 273:
- ‘No, Paul, not now and not in this goddam car!’
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English goddamn, in reference to the English propensity for swearing. Originally used in the Hundred Years War.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]goddam m (plural goddams)
- (chiefly in the plural, ethnic slur) an English person
- 1932, Thierry Sandre, Le corsaire Pellot qui courut pour le roi, page 81:
- Ah! ah! dit-il en riant, il serait digne d’un goddam, si les goddams savaient tirer si droit.
- Ah! ah! he laughed, he would be worthy of an Englishman, if the Englishmen knew how to shoot so straight.
Further reading
[edit]- “goddam”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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