tarnation

1. (regional or archaic) The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.Examples: "What in tarnation is going on?"; "I am Offul maazed. Wheer in tarnations es that theer plaguy girl?"; "Them city fellers liked to died when they see me come in the office ! I says to 'em: "Had a tarnation of a time finding this place."archaiccountableregionaluncountable

2. (obsolete) Someone or something that causes trouble; troublemaker.Examples: "I would say more, but RADLEY's come up to tell me I must go and meet that tarnation BANCROFT."; "I felt sort of odd all over, and I hadn't the least notion what could ail me; it warn't a very tedious feeling, though, but it seemed as if I was a dreaming yit, and all about that tarnation little Miss Miles."; "The year before that the young tarnations got up into the tower one night and hooked a rope onto the bell and stretched it across the campus into Professor Robert's barn."countableobsoleteuncountable