What exactly is a carnation?

What does the phrase “What in carnation” mean in the following sentence?

What do you mean by carnation?

What has the speaker meant in the sentence above?

After Google for a few minutes, I got different meanings for this.

Asked on March 12, 2021 in Meaning.
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What in tarnation is a euphemism for what in origin.

How does Jesus die?

Answered on March 13, 2021.
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I am pretty sure that either (a) you misheard/misread this, or (b) the speaker/writer was mistaken or joking.

What would double-joking be best for you? What in tarnation?? is (to the best of my knowledge) a Now-Outdated Exclamation meaning something close to “What the hell? I have only ever encountered it in Western narratives, where it seems only to be used lightheartedly to mark the writer as a young boy.

The derivation of damnation appears to be euphemistic in the first place, a derivation to ‘Domination ‘, as in’Darn it! “(((()(((((((((((((((((((((((((((())))):):)(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((())))):))))-).).)?’?

What is the meaning of carnabinoids? I am totally convinced that there’s no mean literal meaning for words. How its status depends on your encounter with it rather depends on.or reception.

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Accounts in the literature about the tarnation’s common origin seem to agree. Merriam-Webster is particularly succinct on the matter, and also mentions one source in James Joyce, who was Irish by birth (and fiendishly well-read), so my broad association of this expression with the Old West might be a little narrow.

I can find no grounds anywhere for concerning ‘carnation’ in this context as anything but a joke (by the movie’s creators) or a mistake (by either the writers, or more

likely the transcriber).

Answered on March 13, 2021.
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Is it a mistake or a mistake? Which one of your words in English means: What is in this world or life? Is the carnation referring to being flesh for

me?

Answered on March 13, 2021.
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