adj. (common).—A euphemism for BLESSED (q.v.), ‘damned’; ‘BLOWED’ (q.v.); or BLAMED (q.v.), of the last of which it is probably a corruption. Hence, Blame me! Damme!
1867. No Church, I., 104. To be in a BLARMED hurry.
1872. JOHN FORSTER, The Life of Charles Dickens, xxxi., (III., 191) He saw a strange sensation among the angry travellers whom he had detained so long; heard a voice exclaim, ‘I am BLARMED if it ain’t Dickens!’ and stood in the centre of a group of Five Americans!
