DARNED • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Darned

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dɑrnd/ Listen

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.

See images of 'Darned'

Etymology of 'Darned'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Darned" Quotes from Famous Books

... easily pacified than the man, but finally on our offering to give him three plugs of tobacco to hush up the affair, he became quiet and smoothed the ragged front of his anger. On adding a cigar or two to the plugs, he brightened up and said we might have the "darned houn'" any how, if we wanted him. But we had had enough of his society and were willing to part from ...

— Fifteen Years in Hell • Luther Benson

... an old Dutch commander who actually prayed the Lord to remain neutral, although from a different motive. On the eve of battle he addressed the deity in this fashion: "O Lord, we are ten thousand, and they are ten thousand, but we are a darned sight better soldiers than they, and, O Lord, do thou but keep out of it, and well give them the ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (First Series) • George W. Foote

... art were attained when both quilting and flowers were done in bright yellow silk; the effect of this colour on a white ground being always particularly good. A handsome quilt may be worked with a darned background. It is done most easily on huckaback towelling of rather loose weave, running the needle under the raised ...

— Quilts - Their Story and How to Make Them • Marie D. Webster

... I do look at any one else," he blustered; "and, anyway, a man of the world must have a little amusement, with such a dull, stuck-up wife at home as I have got. Cordelia is a darned sight higher rank than you are, and yet she does not give herself ...

— The Reflections of Ambrosine - A Novel • Elinor Glyn

... Bridget do, and quickly touched it. It seemed just right, hot, but not burning, so she began on the stockings, and ironed them flat, on the right side, turning each one over and pressing both sides. She did not turn in the toes, because some of them needed to be darned, and whoever did it would have to turn each one back to see if there were any holes in it; but she made them into pairs, folding each once, and hung them on the little ...

— A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl - Margaret's Saturday Mornings • Caroline French Benton

More quotes...