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- interjection idiomatic used as a mild oath, or as an expression of astonishment
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amacleod03 commented on the word dog my cats
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