dashed

Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

Adjective

  1. Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
  2. Damned.
    • It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.
    • I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf. - 1824 May 15, “Kiddywinkle History, No. II”, in Blackwood's Magazine, page 540:
    • I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff. - 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 8, in Uncle Fred in the Springtime:

Forms

more dashed most dashed

Synonyms

broken darned

Related

dash-dotted dotted

Derived

dashedly undashed

Verb

  1. past participle of dash