damnder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: damneder
Senses: examples: text: Blank departed, and [John] Forster arrived; and in the course of the interview [Charles] Dickens, thinking it would please him, took occasion to tell what had been said about him by Blank. “I am very sorry, my dear Dickens,” said Forster, “that I cannot return the compliment, for a damnder ass than your friend Mr. Blank I never met in a business affair!”
ref: 1885, Edmund Yates, “People I Have Known”, in Fifty Years of London Life: Memoirs of a Man of the World, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 329–330:
text: Well, Bill Montgomery is a damnder fool than I took him to be. Why, I can follow that track for a week and tell within five minutes of the time he crosses every mud hole on the way. Jim Black never knowed much about the woods, but he ought to have known better than to leave signs as plain as these when he goes hunting such dangerous game as you and me, captain.
ref: 1856, Jeremiah Clemens, chapter IV, in Bernard Lile; an Historical Romance, Embracing the Periods of the Texas Revolution, and the Mexican War, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, page 59:
text: “I’ve been a d——d fool, Mag,” he said, trying to smile—“a damnder fool than ever; and that’s saying a good deal——”
ref: 1875, Stephen J[oseph] Mac Kenna, “Miss Wyatt Astonishes the Doctor”, in A Child of Fortune. […], volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 88:
text: Austin, was the fellow’s name, a damnder fool you would not want to see, I thought, when he came to me at Louisville and said, “General, I believe I can help you in this matter.”
ref: 1890, Don Carlos Buell, interview; quoted in Harvey H. Smith, “Captain Thomas H[enry] Hines of [John Hunt] Morgan’s Confederate Cavalry and Bill Austin, Lincoln Spy”, in Lincoln and the Lincolns, memorial edition, New York, N.Y.: Pioneer Publications, […], November 1930, →OCLC, page 271:
text: Deponent further says that he spurned the offer and turned and left the room, when he was accosted by Mr. Clark Grier, who said to him, “You are a damnder fool than I thought you were.”
ref: 1912 June 27, T. J. Culpepper, quotee, Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the Sixty-Second Congress, Second Session, volume XLVIII, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8901, column 2:
text: For [Arthur] Zimmermann’s faux pas over Japan and Mexico he had about an equal amount of contempt and almost of rage. He told me one day that every man in the German Foreign Office was a damned fool and made a damnder fool of himself every time he got the opportunity.
ref: 1917 July, “a British sympathiser”, report to Arthur Balfour; quoted in George W. Liebmann, “Count Johann Bernstorff”, in Diplomacy Between the Wars: Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World, London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, 2008, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Some day I may partially forget you, and be able to enjoy another woman, but there’s nothing to show that it’ll be soon. If anything, I’m a damnder fool over you now than I ever was.
ref: 1921 March 9, Dashiell Hammett, “To Josephine Dolan”, in Richard Layman, Julie M. Rivett, editors, Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921–1960, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, published 2001, →ISBN, page 11:
text: “However, there’s no hurry. We have four months to think our plans over.” / “And meanwhile you’ll keep that formula safe and secret,” Derek urged earnestly. / Mark turned towards his wife. / “My dear, I think Derek takes me for a damnder fool than I am. Shall we move?”
ref: 1930 July, A[lfred] E[dward] W[oodley] Mason, “The Great Experiment”, in The Dean’s Elbow, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 170:
text: The south has sat more or less uncomplaining through dozens of pictures and heard the southern accent being rent limb from limb, but it’s damnder than the damndest damm Yankee if it wants to hear it being mangled in Gone With the Wind.
ref: 1938 July 29, Bill Porter, “Paul Harrison in Hollywood”, in Carl E[ugene] Otto, editor, Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune […], 25th year, number 7687, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.: Wisconsin Rapids Tribune Co., →OCLC, page 9, column 7:
glosses: comparative form of damned: more damned