Really, let's have some serious answers here.
What DOES this mean?
Especially when they are reffering to God.
I don't allow this spoken in our house or on our property, and my hubby thinks so too.
What does it mean and where does it come from?
Thanks
2006-06-21 20:29:01 · 14 answers · asked by oodlesoanimals 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, you have it in the right category. It started out as: "God damn it" This was considered using the lords name in vain because people were really calling on God to damn something or someone. Then it just turned in to a common phrase. Technically it is still asking for God to damn something though, and thus the Christians are against saying it.
2006-06-21 20:36:00 · answer #1 · answered by scottie2h2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To damn anyone was to curse them to everlasting nonexistance or to hell. However the ancient and true meanings of most words has gotten lost, now mostly dammit, or damn it, is just a remark of frustration with something or someone.
2006-06-21 20:34:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yo i woke up this mornin holdin an m9 looked in the mirror and i saw a dolla sign got a cat scan, I had money on my mind went to the tatoo parlor told a chick get my name on your spin so i can feel good when im hittin from behind and this is why they call me dmoney my rhymes aint no joke they not funny cause i got the money, i get the honeys and when i got a problem, i fetch my self a snow bunny the kind that doesnt stain kind called cocaine then i stur, pack, and start sell ing like its my thing, like i spit bling bling o im sorry, do my rhymes sting???? o and if you dont like them and think i cant sing boy dont worry, youll be up there marchin with martin luther king
2016-03-16 21:07:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
damn
c.1280, "to condemn," from O.Fr. damner, derivative of L. noun damnare, from damnum "damage, loss, hurt." Latin word evolved a legal meaning of "pronounce judgment upon." Theological sense is first recorded c.1325; the optative expletive use likely is as old. To be not worth a damn is from 1817. Damn Yankee, characteristic Southern U.S. term for "Northerner," is attested from 1812.
2006-06-21 20:33:56 · answer #4 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If something is damned, it's going to hell. Since God's in charge of the damning, His name is sometimes invoked.
2006-06-21 20:32:51 · answer #5 · answered by shadesofthesun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me, it seems being an abbreviation of demon.
The word demon comes from Greek mythology and has indo-europen roots.
2006-06-21 20:36:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from a beaver, one day a beaver said "why is it so dam hard to build this dam" them another beaver pal said "I know lets just dammit then we can have a good home and a place to swim. thanks for picking my answer.
2006-06-21 20:38:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damn it short for condemn, so to say something like goddamn you is like ordering God to comdemn that person. Damnation, etc.
2006-06-21 20:34:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means condemnation, as in damned(condemned).
damnation(like grandma used to say when she got excited).
2006-06-21 20:45:31 · answer #9 · answered by Stuie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dam basically means stop like curse works mean things
dammit means stop it
god dammit means god stop it like god plz stop this
2006-06-21 20:32:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋