Consarn

Full definition of consarn

Noun

1. Eye dialect of en
• 1863, James Fenimore Cooper, The Crater Chapter , Howsever, sir, that is a subject that need give us no consarn.

Verb

1. Eye dialect of en
• 1898, Frank Richard Stockton, The Girl at Cobhurst Chapter , There isn't no place," said Phoebe, "where there isn't somethin' that Miss Panney wants to consarn herself in."

Alteration of confound.

Verb

1. (in oaths, as imperative) Confound.
• 1870, George Melville Baker, Little brown jug, Consarn it, Jarius, you are a hog, and no mistake.
• 1898, Edward Stratemeyer, The minute boys of Lexington, Consarn ye, take thet ! " And he banged each of the inoffensive animals in the sides with the stock of his gun
• 1913, Janet Aldridge, The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas Chapter , "Leggo my whiskers, consarn ye!" it shouted.
• 2004, Cynthia Queen, The Major's Renegade, He came to camp follerin' this cat and a holloring, 'Here kitty-kitty-kitty' all over the consarned place.
• 2008, George Barr McCutcheon, The Daughter of Anderson Crow, Why, consarn you, Anderson Crow, I didn't have any spare children to leave around on doorsteps.

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