darn
adjectiveadverbinterjectionverbnounverbnouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//dɑːn//
- United States//dɑɹn//
- //daːn//
Damn.
adjective
- 1
Damn.
Etymology
A minced oath of damn.
adverb
- 1
Damned.
But I ain't up to my baby tonight / 'Cause it's too darn hot
Of the two episodes, “Mortshall” is slightly weaker, while still being pretty darn good. I spent a lot of this season bemoaning the weaker entries, and like I said last time, it’s shit like this that makes me complain when stuff gets super dumb.
interjection
- 1
Damn.
verb
- 1
Damn.
noun
- 1
Damn.
His opinion isn't worth a darn.
verb
- 1
To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.
I need to darn these socks again.
He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in reading his courses, dozing, clipping papers, or darning his stockings; which last he performed to admiration.
Does Mother imagine for one moment that she is going to darn all those stockings knotted up on the quilt like a coil of snakes ? She's not.
Etymology
From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Related to Old English dyrne, dierne (“secret”, adjective).
noun
- 1
A place mended by darning.
Forms
- plural
- darns
- past tense
- darned
- past participle
- darned
- present participle
- darning
- third person singular
- darns