damnfool

Like, when Maine-speak uses "damnfool" as an adjective, it is _indeed_ one word.

Rain jhetley 2006

I have responsibilities closer to home-to my employees, to my staff, to the people who depend on me personally to be there, and not go haring off on some kind of damnfool idealistic crusade designed to get someone close to me out of a midterm exam. "

Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

I have responsibilities closer to home'to my employees, to my staff, to the people who depend on me personally to be there, and not go haring off on some kind of damnfool idealistic crusade designed to get someone close to me out of a midterm exam. "

Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

So the question I have about finishing this story is: should damnfool be one word, two words, or a hyphenated word, when used as an adjective?

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway careswen 2009

That is, "You didn't make a damnfool wish like that," not, "You're a damn fool, Carter Hall."

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway careswen 2009

But I am on the fence regarding damnfool/damn-fool/damn fool.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway careswen 2009

Obviously Ministers of the Crown don't ask damnfool questions for nothing, but I could only stare at him.

Fiancée 2010

I also feel you on hesitating to tell some truths because of how they may be heard, but still speaking truth to tower AND to street, no matter what damnfool judgments may be made.

Hopkins and Me : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

And the fact, the glorious, stupid, wonderful, geeky fact that someone in the White House actually knows what an Atari is, makes me grin like a damnfool yokel.

2009 January « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009

And the fact, the glorious, stupid, wonderful, geeky fact that someone in the White House actually knows what an Atari is, makes me grin like a damnfool yokel.

Xbox to Atari « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009