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Darn   /dɑrn/   Listen
Darn

verb
(past & past part. darned; pres. part. darning)
1.
Repair by sewing.
noun
1.
Something of little value.  Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn.  "Not worth one red cent" , "Not worth shucks"
2.
Sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment).  Synonyms: mend, patch.



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"Darn" Quotes from Famous Books



... lose her temper completely, but this was the last straw. "Darn," she exclaimed spitefully, "darn you, you old creek, I'd like to beat you. I won't take my shoes off again! ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... down the trail at a lope. She couldn't have gone far, he reasoned, and if she had been out all night in the rain, with no better shelter than Rock City afforded, she would need help,—"and lots of it, and pretty darn quick," he added to John Doe, which was the ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower

... been expecting it, and here it is. Mark me down as a good prophet, will you? There's a washout a mile further on, and a telegraph pole across the track. It's blowing great guns and raining pitchforks. It'll be out of the question for us to go forward before daylight, if then. Darn a ...
— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln

... last, lingering pull at the cigarette stub, flung it into the backened forge, and picked up the spur. He settled his hat on his head at its accustomed don't-give-a-darn tilt, and started for the door ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower

... me. I congratulated him and remarked that his wife would be thankful when he met her, on her arrival, with such splendid news. "I'll 'ave the larf of my missus," said Bill. "W'en she comes, I shall tell 'er I've some serious noos for 'er, and she's ter send the kid darn on the grarse ter play. Then I'll pull a long fice and hask 'er ter bear up, and say I'm sorry for 'er, and she mustn't tike it too rough, and all that; and she 'as my sympathy in 'er diserpointment: she ain't ter get ...
— Observations of an Orderly - Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital • Ward Muir


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