dayum
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Respelling of damn to reflect emphatic stress and a Southern US drawl, in which the vowel is broken into gliding vowels.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdæ̙jəm], [ˈdeəjəm]
Interjection
dayum!
- (slang, emphatic) Eye dialect spelling of damn, representing Southern US English.
- Oh, man, did you see her?! Dayum! She was hella fine!
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