What does billy-be-damned mean?

billy-be-damned

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English

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noun

Colloquial; Uncountable

"He whispered to Delilah and—as mad as blazes—the pair stared daggers at me and huffed off. They might hate each other, but Billy-be-damned, they hated me more."
"He's a Billy-be-damned fool if he thinks that plan will work."
"It's as cold as Billy-be-damned out there."

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