Definitions
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- interjection slang, emphatic
Eye dialect spelling ofdamn , representing southern US English.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And "dayum" right I have money to spend on the things I love!
Joystiq [Xbox] 2009
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LOL — which is why, in another thread, I noted one Senator who voiced what a lot of ‘em surely feel: dayum, I’d like to propose something (like working for a dollar a year), just to make the rest of these hypocritical sumbitches vote against it.
Matthew Yglesias » Strange Tales of Congressional Procedure 2010
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Because, dayum, he sure looks like he's been Photoshopped in.
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Seriously, she wants a million bucks an episode? dayum!!
Think Progress » Cuccinelli: Homosexual ‘acts’ are a ‘detriment to our culture.’ 2010
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So they can say "dayum!" and have a story to tell when it's all over?
Todd Greene: Irene In New York and Natural Disaster Rubbernecking Todd Greene 2011
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Sorry to pull up the Nazi analogy, but dayum, Rush/Beck/Savage et. al remind me forcibly of the guys who told those Jews entering the camps that they all were going to get a nice hot soapy shower …
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LOL — which is why, in another thread, I noted one Senator who voiced what a lot of ‘em surely feel: dayum, I’d like to propose something (like working for a dollar a year), just to make the rest of these hypocritical sumbitches vote against it.
Matthew Yglesias » Strange Tales of Congressional Procedure 2010
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Sorry to pull up the Nazi analogy, but dayum, Rush/Beck/Savage et. al remind me forcibly of the guys who told those Jews entering the camps that they all were going to get a nice hot soapy shower …
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I've never tried monkey bread before but dayum does it look yummy!
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So young and disadvantaged, but dayum, what a plucky little girl!!
8-Year-Old Seeks Divorce fantasyecho 2008
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