dashed

Etymology

verb

1. past participle of dash

adj

1. (of a line) Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
2. (Britain, dated, informal, euphemistic) Damned.
   It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.
   I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf. 15 May 1824, “Kiddywinkle History, No. II”, in Blackwood's Magazine, page 540
   I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff. 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 8, in Uncle Fred in the Springtime