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Brewer's: Land-damn
A corruption of landan (to rate or reprove severely). According to Dean Milles the word is still used in Gloucestershire.
“You are abused ... would I knew the villain, I would land-damn him.” —
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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