What is darn mean

Today she wore her oldest jeans , and a sagging sweater with darns in the elbows. Thank you, that is a beautiful darn. Irena had finished the darn. She was ashamed of the patches and darns on her clothes.

Darn it! There goes my bus! Expressions of anger. That darn World Cup means so much to you, I know. It's over, and there's not a darned thing we can do about it. Linguistics: intensifying expressions. Idiom the darnedest thing. She runs so darn fast! We worked pretty darned hard. Idiom do your darnedest. I missed my bus. Darn can also mean extremely :. Examples of darn. Politically conservative, they stood up for small shopkeepers and artisans, distrusted advertising and preferred 'quality' to cheapness and darning to new clothes.

From the Cambridge English Corpus. I have to say that this statement is a darn sight better than the one before it. From the Hansard archive. Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3. They stitch and darn and get given bits by relatives or friends. Most of them are a darn sight better off than people who have the guts and independence to rent privately or buy property.

A place mended by darning. To repair a hole, as in a garment, by weaving thread or yarn across it. Origin of darn. French dialectal darner perhaps from Norman French darne piece from Breton darn.

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Definition of darn Entry 2 of 5. Definition of darn Entry 3 of 5. Definition of darn Entry 4 of 5. Definition of darn Entry 5 of 5. Other Words from darn Verb 1 darner noun. Synonyms for darn Synonyms: Verb 1 sew , stitch , suture Synonyms: Adjective or adverb accursed or accurst , blasted , confounded , cotton-picking , cursed also curst , cussed , damnable , dang , danged , darned also durned , deuced , doggone or doggoned , freaking , infernal Synonyms: Noun 2 beans , bubkes also bupkes or bupkus , continental , damn , diddly [ slang ], diddly-squat [ slang ], doodley-squat or doodly-squat , fig , ghost , hoot , iota , jot , lick , modicum , rap , squat [ slang ], syllable , tittle , whit , whoop Visit the Thesaurus for More.

First Known Use of darn Verb 1 circa , in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1 Noun 1 , in the meaning defined above Adjective or adverb , in the meaning defined above Verb 2 , in the meaning defined above Noun 2 , in the meaning defined above.