darn

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɑɹn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɑːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n

Etymology 1

minced oath of damn

Etymology 2

From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from dyrne, dierne (“secret”), from Proto-Germanic *darnijaz (“secret”). More at dern.

Verb

Darning.

darn (third-person singular simple present darns, present participle darning, simple past and past participle darned)

1. (transitive, sewing) 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.

   • Jonathan Swift

     He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockings.

Related terms

• darning needle

Translations

stitch with thread

Bulgarian: замрежвам (bg) (zamrežvam), закърпвам (bg) (zakǎrpvam) Chinese: Mandarin: 織補 (zh), 织补 (zh) (zhībǔ), 縫補 (zh), 缝补 (zh) (féngbǔ) Czech: štupovat Dutch: stoppen (nl) Finnish: parsia (fi) French: repriser (fr) Georgian: კემსვა (ḳemsva), ნემსვა (nemsva) German: stopfen (de) Greek: μαντάρω (el) (mantáro) Hungarian: stoppol (hu) Ido: darnar (io)

Irish: dearnáil Italian: rammendare (it) Japanese: かがる (kagaru), 繕う (ja) (つくろう, tsukurou) Norman: dèrner Polish: cerować (pl) Portuguese: remendar (pt) Russian: што́пать (ru) impf (štópatʹ) Slovak: štopkať Spanish: zurcir (es), surcir (es) Swedish: stoppa (sv) Vietnamese: mạng (vi)

Anagrams

• DNAR, DNRA, Nard, RAND, Rand, andr-, nard, rDNA, rand, rdna