‖verdom, interjection
- Forms:
- Also verdam, verdompt.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, from Dutch verdoem to damn.
An expletive, ‘damn’.
[1911 P. Gibbon Margaret Harding 212‘Come in and eat,’ he bade gloomily. ‘Gott verdam — come and eat.’]
1985 Drum June 31‘We would not have what the newspapers call South Africa’s race problems, the biggest problem the country has?’ I chipped in naively. ‘Verdom. Sphukuphuku,’ Dabula spat again.
An expletive, ‘damn’.
- Derivatives:
- Hence verdom intransitive verb, to use the expletive ‘verdom’, found as verdoming verbal noun.1899 G. Lacy Pictures of Trav., Sport & Adventure 403All got safely ashore, where the verdoming and Almagtiging was enough to make one’s hair stand on end.
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