tarnation

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

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Svenskahelsefyrhelskotta

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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