verb · transitive · rare

darn

darn · darns · darned · darning

церувати, зацеровувати, зацерувати

штопать

stopfen

DamnDamn.

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UK/dɑːn/US/dɑɹn/

» I'll be darned.

Будь я тричі проклятий.

Meaning

2 senses

(euphemistic, transitive)Damn.
(transitive)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.
stopfen
што́патьštópatʹ
церуватиceruvaty, зацеровуватиzacerovuvaty, зацеруватиzaceruvaty

More definitions

repair by sewing

Examples

17 sentences

I'll be darned.
Будь я тричі проклятий.
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It’s a pretty darn good time.
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It's too darned hot to do anything today.
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I have an early memory of my grandmother darning socks.
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Then she took out a needle and thread, and began to darn her stockings.
deDann nahm sie Nadel und Faden und fing an, ihre Strümpfe zu flicken.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

stitch with thread:

Русский

By meaning 1

stitch with thread:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

stitch with thread:

Origin

A minced oath of damn. From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole

A minced oath of damn.

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).

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