An expletive in very general use among the vulgar, instead of damn.
Now let me see, that isn't all; I used 'fore leaving Jaalam,
To count things on my finger-ends, but something seems to ail 'em.
There's my left hand? O, darn it, yes, I recollect what's come on 't,
I haint no left arm but my right, and that's got jest a thumb on 't.--Poetical Epistle from a Volunteer.