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consarned(adj.)

a vulgar drawling pronunciation of concerned, at first in England in representations of the speech of beggars, the Irish and sailors. The London Morning Chronicle, Sept. 28, 1829, has an account in which the speaker is imitating a sturdy beggar who describes himself as " 'consarned,' as he calls it, in liquor."

It appears in Yankee dialect humor pieces in U.S. newspapers by 1830 in "Letter from a Sailor in Paris" in the Albany Daily Advertiser, etc. (he was consarned about the Toolleries), but it might be meant as a sailor's word there, and the first record of it clearly representing simply Yankee pronunciation is 1834 in the Maj. Jack Downing letters. As an American English euphemism for "damned" it is attested by 1840.

该词起源时间:1829年