dashed
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dæʃt/
- Past participle of dash
dashed
- (of a line) Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- (British, dated, informal, euphemism) Damned.
- It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.
- 1824, "Kiddywinkle History, No. II", Blackwood's Magazine (15, May 1824) [http://books.google.com/books?id=72Q6AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22i'll%20be%20dashed%22&pg=PA540#v=onepage&q=%22i'll%20be%20dashed%22&f=false p. 540]
- I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf.
- 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime [http://books.google.com/books?id=s8DJQghJDogC&lpg=PA89&dq=%22i'll%20be%20dashed%22&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q=%22i'll%20be%20dashed%22&f=false Chapter 8]
- I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff.
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