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nerfherder

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Nov 15, 2001, 7:17:20 AM11/15/01
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What is _shucky darn_?
Thanks.

perchprism

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Nov 15, 2001, 8:27:33 AM11/15/01
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"nerfherder" <nerfh...@bbs.ee.ntu.edu.tw> wrote in message
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> What is _shucky darn_?
> Thanks.

Never heard it before. I guess it's silly swearing--like you'd imagine a
little kid might do. "Poopy-head" comes to mind.

"Shucks" is a euphemism for "shit," and "darn" is one for "damn."

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Perchprism
(southern New Jersey, near Philadelphia)


Gary Williams

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Nov 15, 2001, 7:57:55 PM11/15/01
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"perchprism" <gbl...@home.com> wrote in message news:<9pPI7.221427$5A3.81...@news1.rdc2.pa.home.com>...

> Never heard it before. I guess it's silly swearing ...

Yeah, I think I _have_ heard it (northeast Missouri, c. 1960), and
your hypothesis is correct. It might be someone's minced oath, but I
think silliness was more what the speaker I heard had in mind. Kind
of to denigrate the impact of supposedly bad news or information, so
that what might have elicited "Oh, shit", or "Oh, damn" got only a
faintly sarcastic "Oh, shucky-darn."

Gary Williams

Harvey V

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Nov 16, 2001, 3:48:03 AM11/16/01
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On 16 Nov 2001, I take it that will...@ahec.edu (Gary Williams)
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I thought it also has overtones of mock-rural/hick usage as well as
silliness.

The only place I can remember seeing it was in an old Garfield comic
strip, when the cat and owner were visiting the farm. The cat didn't
want to be there; but when the owner's mother started to push food
at them, he says "Well shucky-darn and slop the chickens, I think I'm
gonna like it here...".

Harvey

N.Mitchum

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Nov 16, 2001, 2:15:22 PM11/16/01
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nerfherder wrote:
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> What is _shucky darn_?
>....

Looks like a minced oath, a euphemizing of "shit" and "damn."


----NM

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