First Known Use: circa 1600
in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
See Words from the same year1720
accursed (or accurst), blasted, confounded, cotton-picking, cursed (also curst), cussed, damnable, dang, danged, darned (also durned), doggone (or doggoned), infernal;
commendable, creditable, laudable, praiseworthy;
great, marvelous (or marvellous), wonderful;
atrocious, awful, bum, detestable, execrable, lousy, punk, rotten, terrible, wretched;
abominable, odious, vile;
contemptible, despicable, miserable, nasty, pitiable, pitiful, scabby, scummy, scurvy, shameful, sorry;
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1840
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