darn

darn
\ \ English has two distinct words darn. The verb ‘mend with stitches’ [16] may come ultimately from an Old English verb diernan ‘hide’, a derivative of the adjective dierne ‘secret’, which in turn was descended from West Germanic *darnjaz. Darn the mild curse [18], which arose in American English, is usually taken to be a euphemistic alteration of damn, although it has been suggested, not very plausibly, that it too came from dern, the modern English descendant of Old English dierne, in the sense ‘dark, dreary’.

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  • darn — darn1 [därn] vt., vi. [< MFr dial. darner, to piece together, mend < Bret darn, a piece < IE base * der , to pull off, split apart > TEAR1] to mend (cloth) or repair (a hole or tear in cloth) by sewing a network of stitches across the …   English World dictionary

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  • Darn — Darn, v. t. A colloquial euphemism for {Damn}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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