different between dahn vs darn

English

Adverb

dahn (not comparable)

1. (Britain) Pronunciation spelling of down.

Preposition

dahn

1. (Britain) Pronunciation spelling of down.
   • 2007, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Faceless Fiend: The Faceless Fiend: Being the Tale of a Criminal Mastermind, His Masked Minions and a Princess with a Butter Knife, Involving Explosives and a Certain Amount of Pushing and Shoving, Book 2

     “So, wot, people'd pay to throw you dahn the stairs? Dunno abaht that. People in these parts is used to throwing one another dahn stairs for free.

Anagrams

• Danh, H-DNA, HAND, Hand, NADH, hDNA, hand

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse *þæðan? = Swedish dädan? Compare Old Norse þær (“there”), Icelandic þaðan, .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d????]

Adverb

d?hn

1. thence, therefrom, from there, away (from there)

Related terms

• hjan (“hence”)

Alternative forms

• daan
• dan
• däan
• dädena
• dea

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??n/
• (New England) IPA^(key): /da?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Etymology 1

A minced oath of damn.

Adjective

darn (not comparable)

1. (euphemistic) Damn.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:damned

Derived terms

• darn tootin'

Translations

Adverb

darn (not comparable)

1. (degree, euphemistic) Damned.

Interjection

darn

1. (euphemistic) Damn.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:dammit

Derived terms

• darn tootin'

Translations

Verb

darn (third-person singular simple present darns, present participle darning, simple past and past participle darned)

1. (transitive) Euphemism of damn.

Synonyms

• dang
• damn

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from dyrne, dierne (“secret”), from Proto-West Germanic *darn? (“hidden, secret”).

Verb

darn (third-person singular simple present darns, present participle darning, simple past and past participle darned)

1. (transitive, sewing) To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.

   I need to darn these socks again.

   • c. 1703-1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen

     He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockings.

Usage notes

Predominantly used to described repairs to stockings or socks. The frequency of references to both follows their general prominence with references to stockings being more historically prominent and references to socks being more recently prominent.

Related terms

• darning needle

Translations

Noun

darn (plural darns)

1. A place mended by darning.

Further reading

• Darning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -andr-, DNAR, DNRA, Nard, RAND, Rand, andr-, nard, rDNA, rand, rdna