Contextualizebeta

dernful

adj
/ˈdɜː(ɹ)nfəl/

Etymology

From dern + -ful.

  1. derived from *darnī✻ — “hidden, secret”
  2. inherited from dyrne
  3. inherited from dern
  4. suffixed as dernful — “dern + ful”

Definitions

  1. secret, lonely, sad, or mournful

    • dernful noise
    • dernful alley

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dernful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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