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  • interjection idiomatic used as a mild oath, or as an expression of astonishment

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  • The most familiar reference for American readers is likely to be in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. On page four, Jim says, “Say — who is you? What is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n.�? In this context it sounds almost like a curse, as in “damn my soul should I turn out to be wrong.�? But later in the book, Jim uses the turn of phrase again without quite the same implications, at least to my reading.

    July 27, 2009