Meaning of tarnation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.
   archaic, countable, regional, uncountable
2. Someone or something that causes trouble; troublemaker.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“What in tarnation is going on?”

“I am Offul maazed. Wheer in tarnations es that theer plaguy girl?”

“Them city fellers liked to died when they see me come in the office ! I says to 'em: "Had a tarnation of a time finding this place.”

“"Now who in tarnation is Uncle Jobe?" asked Pa.”

“Then where in tarnation is it?”

“I would say more, but RADLEY's come up to tell me I must go and meet that tarnation BANCROFT.”

“I felt sort of odd all over, and I hadn't the least notion what could ail me; it warn't a very tedious feeling, though, but it seemed as if I was a dreaming yit, and all about that tarnation little Miss Miles.”

“The year before that the young tarnations got up into the tower one night and hooked a rope onto the bell and stretched it across the campus into Professor Robert's barn.”

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