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dad·gum

 (dăd′gŭm′)
adj. Chiefly Southern US
Used as an intensive to express mild annoyance.

[Alteration of goddamn.]
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Attorney General John Ashcroft, whose lost Senate seat Talent is trying to recapture for the GOP, one imagines Talent muttering "dadgum" when he gets angry or frustrated.