Meaning

2 senses

  1. (euphemistic)Damn.

    His opinion isn't worth a darn.

  2. A place mended by darning.

More definitions
  • something of little value
  • sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)

Examples

17 sentences

  1. I'll be darned.

    Будь я тричі проклятий. — deniko

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  2. It’s a pretty darn good time.

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  3. It's too darned hot to do anything today.

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  4. I have an early memory of my grandmother darning socks.

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  5. 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. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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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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Forms

plural: darns
Singulardarn
Pluraldarns

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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