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darn

adj
/dɑɹn/US/daːn//dɑːn/UK

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).

  1. inherited from *darnī✻ — “hidden, secret”
  2. inherited from *darnijan✻
  3. inherited from diernan — “to hide, conceal”
  4. inherited from dernen — “to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”

Definitions

  1. Damn.

  2. Damned.

    • But I ain't up to my baby tonight / 'Cause it's too darn hot

  3. To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a…

    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.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A place mended by darning.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at darn. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at darn. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at darn

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA