An archaic or dialectal exclamation expressing frustration or emphasis, often used in old-fashioned speech or period pieces.
A contraction of 'damn me,' combining the verb 'damn' with the reflexive pronoun 'me.' It became popular in 17th-18th century English literature and theater as a mild oath.
Damme was the linguistic signature of rakish characters in Restoration comedy—saying it marked you as fashionable, dissolute, and daring, which is why playwrights loved writing it for villains and charming rogues.
'Damn me' or 'damn her'—archaic interjection. In historical/literary use, 'damme' encodes masculine entitlement to profanity and irreverence; when applied to women, same language marked them as sexually or morally transgressive.
Avoid in modern use. If quoting historical text, contextualize.
["damn","curse (mild)"]
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