Does tarnation mean? =)
2007-07-10 05:32:04 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Ain't ye ever been to the Tar Nation? It's down the road a piece. Everybody there's jumpier 'n a fart in a skillet! Got stuck there quite a spell too!
2007-07-10 05:38:27 · answer #1 · answered by Eudora 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here is what I found:
The exact meaning of tarnation is hard to pinpoint, because it's used as an oath in relatively vague constructions.
But in many cases, "hell" or "the devil" would be a good substitute. It can be used as an interjection (just "Tarnation!," like "damn!"); as an intensive in various ways ("What in tarnation are you talkin' about?"); as a substitute for "hell" or "the devil" ("Well, tarnation strike me!"--James Joyce, Ulysses); as an adjective meaning 'damned' ("I'm in a tarnation hurry"); or as a vaguely intensive adverb like "damnably" ("He's tarnation bad").
Tarnation is probably a blend of tarnal, which is a dialect pronunciation of eternal and which was used as a mild oath, and darnation, a euphemistic variant of damnation. ("Darn" itself is also a euphemism for "damn"; its origin is obscure.) Tarnation is originally and chiefly an Americanism. It is first attested in the late eighteenth century in New England.
2007-07-10 12:35:04 · answer #2 · answered by anjoli16 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Often associated with the area of North Carolina when soldiers and settlers would walk through the piedmont region and their feet would become covered in tar. Thus the term "tarnation"
2007-07-10 12:36:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Here ya go Sunshine... this is what I found....
(good question, by the way!) :) :)
Tarnation = The act of damning or the condition of being damned.
2007-07-10 16:17:31 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Harley99 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tarnation is a obsolete exclamation usualy meaning a unplesant surprise.
2007-07-10 12:37:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The act of damning or the condition of being damned.
http://www.answers.com/topic/tarnation
2007-07-10 12:35:46 · answer #6 · answered by Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Main Entry: tar·na·tion
Pronunciation: "tär-'nA-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of darnation, euphemism for damnation
: DAMNATION -- often used as an interjection or intensive; often used with in
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=tarnation
2007-07-10 12:39:26 · answer #7 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Tarnation is an interjection meaning damnation;)
2007-07-10 12:36:10 · answer #8 · answered by Sabrina Ann F 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
all i found was a dvd.. tarnation
2007-07-10 12:36:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's Missourian Christian language for
H.E. (double hockey sticks)
Derived from the words "torn nation".
Just kidding. I don't know!
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2007-07-10 12:40:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋