Darn

Definition: Darn

Darn

Noun

1. A euphemism for `damn'.

2. Something of little value; "it is not worth a damn"; "not worth shucks".

Verb

1. Repair by sewing, esp. of socks.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "darn" was first used: sometime around 1600 meaning "mend" . (references)

Note: Darn \Darn\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Darned; Darning.]. (references)

DARN

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Darn

Restoration

Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

Crosswords: Darn

Welsh (bit, fragment, lump, part, piece).

I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit (Double Indemnity; writing credit: James M. Cain; Billy Wilder)

Together, we're part of the roughest, toughest, biggest, kindest, fairest, bestest darn gang in the whole world (The Return of Captain Invincible; writing credit: Andrew Gaty; Steven E. de Souza)

Why don't you finish your own darn. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Gosh, I'm doing it. I'm repeating the darn computer (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard)

Darn tootin' (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Unless they try to play it too darn fast (Rock'n'Roll Music; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

I'm so darn glad he let me try it again (Higher Ground; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

That band was sounding pretty darn good to me (Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo; performing artist: TRACY BYRD)

Out Out Darn Spot (1967)

That Darn Cat! (1965)

Darn Barn (1965)

You're Darn Tootin' (1928)

Life's Darn Funny (1921)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Darn Right It's Butch: Memories of Our Gang the Little Rascals (reference)

• No More Darn Buzzwords : Keys to Successful Organized Change (reference)

• Six Darn Cows (reference)

• That Darn Cat (Silhoutte Romance, No 8859) (reference)

• That Darn Cat Soundtrack (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• That Darn Punk (reference)

• That Darn Cat (reference)

• That Darn Cat! (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Spring pastimes. If one could ever hit the ball -- or find the darn thing after hitting it ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Oh, darn you Andy! / Arthur Rice. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "darn": close darn ♦ darn it! ♦ this darn thing. Additional references.

Beginning with "darn": darn-tootin'.

Ending with "darn": gosh-darn.

Afrikaans

verbrands. (various references)

Albanian

zë me pe (needle, sew), shahem (dash, scrap), mbush një vrimë, mallkoj (anathematize, ban, call down, curse, damn, dash, execrate, imprecate, swear, vituperate), i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous), i mallkuar (accursed, accurst, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damning, unblessed). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موضع مرتوق من الثوب, ‏الرتق, ‏رتق (mend, sew, stitch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

закърпвам (mend, patch, piece, piece up, revamp, stitch up, vamp), замрежвам, проклинам (air blast, anathematize, curse, cuss, damn, execrate, imprecate). (various references)

Chinese 

縫補 . (various references)

Czech

zaštupované místo, zašít (patch, patch up, sew up), spravovat (administer, govern, manage, order, superintend), správka (mend, repair), látat. (various references)

Danish

udbedre (to darn, to mend), stoppe (halt, stop), reparere (fix, mend, patch, patch up, repair). (various references)

Dutch

sakkerloot, deksels, bliksems. (various references)

Esperanto

diable. (various references)

Farsi 

فحش (Abusive, Damn, Swear, Swearword, Vilification), لعنتی (Damnable), رفوکردن (Mend), رفو. (various references)

Finnish

parsia (mend). (various references)

French

repriser (to darn). (various references)

Frisian

duvekers, deale, blikstiender. (various references)

German

stopfen (be filling, block, bolt down one's food, bundle, clog, constipate, Cork, cram, darning, fill, jam, jam in, mend, mute, pack, plug, plug up, ram, stop, stop up, stopper, stuff, stuff oneself, to darn, wad). (various references)

Greek 

μαντάρω (to darn, to mend). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעזאזל! (damn), לאחות (fasten, get together, join, patch, piece, piece together, stitch together). (various references)

Hungarian

stoppolás (darning), javítás (amelioration, amendment, correction, corrective maintenance, doing-up, enrichment, fix, improvement, maintenance, rectification, refitting, repair, reparation), beszövés (darning). (various references)

Indonesian

tambalan (patch, repairs), menisik. (various references)

Italian

rammendo (darning, mend, mending), rammendare (mend, sew up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

繕う (to darn, to fix, to mend, to patch up, to repair). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つくろう (to adjust, to darn, to fix, to mend, to patch up, to repair, to tidy up, to trim), かがる (to cross-stitch, to darn, to hemstitch, to sew). (various references)

Manx

karraghey (cobble, doctor, fix, overhaul; cobbling, patch, repair, revise, revision), darnail (darning), cur cleeah er (grate, lattice), cleeah (criss-cross, fret, grate, grating, grid, lattice, school of fish, staff, stave, stretcher, wicker). (various references)

Papiamen

koño, kariso, karamba, karai, karaho, karacho, kónfiro, kónchale. (various references)

Pig Latin

arnday.(various references)

Portuguese

danado (damned, tarnation), remendar (botch, bushel, clout, fudge, mend, patch, patch up, piece, revamp, run up, slubber, vamp), pontear (dot), conserto (botch, darning, mend, mending, refit, refitment, repair, reparation), consertar (clout, cooper, doctor, fix, fix up, make up, mend, nib, patch, patch up, recondition, refit, renovate, repair, restore, revamp, vamp), condenado (condemned, convict, convicted, damned, doomed, fated, tarnation), comosdiabos, cerzir (to darn, to mend), cerzidura (darning), amaldiçoar (curse, damn, sentence). (various references)

Romanian

drege (arrange, doctor, Flavor, flavour, juggle, mend, piece, readjust, refit, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retouch, season, set to rights, spice, tinker, vamp up), repara (cobble, doctor, fix, fix up, make amends for, make good, mend, overhaul, piece, readjust, reclaim, rectify, redress, reduce, refit, renovate, repair, retrieve), cârpiturã (bungling, fib, rag), cârpi (botch, bungle, cobble, mend, patch up, piece, repair, spoil, stitch up, vamp, vamp up), blestemat (accursed, confounded, cursed, damnable, damned, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, rascally, shabby, terrible, villainous, wicked), blestema (ban, beshrew, blaspheme, blast, blow, curse, cuss, damn, execrate, imprecate, swear), afurisit (accursed, bally, blessed, bloody, confounded, cursed, cussed, damned, deuced, devilish, rogue, scamp, scoundrel), ţese (concoct, embroider, hatch, spin, weave, work, wove weave), ţesãturã (contexture, fabric, material, netting, stuff, textile, texture, tissue, web, weft). (various references)

Russian 

штопать. (various references)

Scottish

darnaig. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

psovati (rail, revile, swear, swear at), krpiti (piece, tinker), kleti, štopati (mend). (various references)

Spanish

zurcir (to darn, to mend). (various references)

Swedish

stoppning (darning, pad, padding, stuffing, upholstery, wadding), stoppa strumpor, stoppa kläder, stoppa (arrest, bolster, call off, check, chop, cram, cushion, cut, fill, heave to, hold up, intercept, jam, pad, pop, ram, shove, stick, stop, stuff, thrust, tuck, upholster, wad, wave down, waylay), stopp (arrest, deadlock, jam, stop, whoa). (various references)

Turkish

yama (botch, patch, vamp), lanetlemek (anathematize, curse, damn, reprobate), belâ okumak (damn, execrate), örerek onarmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

штопати (mend, piece), заштопане місце, лагодити (amend, do up, mend, piece, piece up, refit, repair, revamp, vamp), прокляття (anathema, ban, bane, curse, cuss, damn, damn it, damnation, execration, imprecation, malediction, malison, oath, perdition), проклинати (anathematize, ban, curse, damn, detest, execrate, imprecate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự mạng chỗ mạng. (various references)

Welsh

brodio (embroider). (various references)

bombax. (various references)

diernan. (various references)

darner. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "darn": darndest, darndests, darned, darneder, darnedest, darnel, darnels, darner, darners, darning, darnings, darns. (additional references)

Words ending with "darn": cedarn, goldarn. (additional references)

Words containing "darn": goldarns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Darn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aarn, arn, Daan, daar, D'afra, dagr, dain, dairn, dairnt, dann, Danra, daon, dar, dara, D'aran, darb, darc, Dard, Darf, darg, darh, darin, Darl, darm, darne, darni, Daron, darp, darq, Darra, darri, darv, darw, dary, Daryn, daun, daxn, dayn, deorn, derne, dernt, deron, Deryn, dgar, Dhar, diarn, dinr, dirf, dirn, dorj, dpar, dra, dran, drang, drant, draon, durn, dwarm, jarn, narn, Sarn, Udairn, varn. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nard, rand.

-1 letter: and, rad, ran.

-2 letters: ad, an, ar, na.

+1 letter: adorn, brand, darns, denar, dinar, drain, drank, drawn, grand, nadir, nards, radon, rands, randy, ranid, redan.

+2 letters: adorns, aldrin, ardent, around, bander, brands, brandy, canard, candor, cedarn, craned, damner, dancer, dander, danger, danker, daring, darken, darned, darnel, darner, denari, denars, denary, dharna, dhurna, dinars, dragon, drains, durian, earned, endear, errand, gander, garden, gradin, grands, hadron, harden, inroad, inward, jordan, ladron, lander, lardon, lurdan, nacred, nadirs, narked, neared, onward, ordain, pander, pardon, qindar, radian, radons, rained, rancid, randan, random, ranged, ranids, ranked, ranted, redans, remand, repand, riband, roband, rodman, sander, snared, strand, tundra, undraw, unread, wander, warden, warned, yarned, zander.