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# dang

«dang» in Mova's school dictionary: **a mild stand-in for «damn», showing annoyance or surprise** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

interjection, adjective, adverb (dang, danged, dang it)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, informal, US) a mild stand-in for «damn», showing annoyance or surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dang/#m1)

2) (adverb, US) very («dang good»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dang/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Very common in American speech, especially the South and countryside; polite enough for children; in cartoons and westerns.

### examples

- Dang it, I missed the bus! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dang/#x1)
- That's a dang good burger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dang/#x2)
- The dang car won't start again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dang/#x3)
- «Dang!» said the cowboy when he lost his hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dang/#x4)
- Dang, it's cold out here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dang/#x5)
- Where'd I put my dang glasses? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dang/#x6)
- "Dang it!" said the fool, as he scratched his head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dang/#x7)

### note

Mild, safe in front of most adults in the USA. Sounds American and folksy.

### In the corpora

- ["Dang" is a mild word used instead of "damn"; it is American.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dang» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dang/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.