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verb

Darn v. t. (past & past part. darned; pres. part. darning) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. "He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockings."

Darning last. See under Last.

Darning needle.

(a)

A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings.

(b)

(Zool.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings. Note: (In this sense, usually written with a hyphen.) Called also devil's darning-needle.

Darn v. t. A colloquial euphemism for Damn.

adjective

darned adj. An intensifying expletive; a eupehmism for damned; as, for no darned reason at all.

Synonyms: blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, gosh-darned.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Darned" Quotes from Famous Books

... I've done for him while I was growing up. I've figured out pretty close what it cost to put me through the University, and what I was worth to him during the summers. Father's Scotch—but he isn't a darned bit more Scotch than I am, mother. Putting it all in dollars and cents, I think I've earned more than I cost him. In the winters, I know I earned my board doing chores and riding line. Many a little bunch of stock I've ...

— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower

... millions—and little me at the tail-end of it all. I'm a waste product in the Bessemer process—like the millions. Or rather, I inherit the acquired trait of the by-product, wealth, but none of the energy, none of the strength of the steel that made it. I am sired by gold and darned by it, as they say at the race track—damned in more ways than one, [She ...

— The Hairy Ape • Eugene O'Neill

... meant anything, so he went in. Bannon, already in his shirt and trousers, stood with his back to the door, his face in the washbowl. As he scoured he sputtered. Max could make little out of it, for Bannon's face was under water half the time, but he caught such phrases as "Pete's darned foolishness," "College boy trick," "Lie abed all the morning," and "Better get an alarm clock"— which thing and the need for it Bannon greatly despised—and he reached the conclusion that the matter was nothing more serious than that Bannon ...

— Calumet "K" • Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster

... a chair and decided that she would put on what she needed of them on the morrow, even though they were rumpled with long lying away. She even searched out an old pair of her own stockings and laid them on a chair with the other things. They were neatly darned as all things had always been under her stepmother's supervision. Further search brought a pair of partly worn prunella slippers to light, with ...

— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

... home an' ask our Nancy Wether I'd be sech a goose Ez to jine ye,—guess you'd fancy The etarnal bung wuz loose! 100 She wants me fer home consumption, Let alone the hay's to mow,— Ef you're arter folks o' gumption, You've a darned ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

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