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English

Etymology

From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan (“to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *spurnan? (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper-, *sperw- (“to twitch, push, fidget, be quick”). Cognate with Scots spurn (“to strike, push, kick”), German spornen (“to spur on”), Icelandic sporna, spyrna (“to kick”), Latin spern? (“despise, distain, scorn”). Related to spur and spread.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sp?n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /sp??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Verb

spurn (third-person singular simple present spurns, present participle spurning, simple past and past participle spurned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
   • Domestics will pay a more ready and cheerful service, when they find themselves not spurned, because fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their master's feet.
2. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
3. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.

   • The myller spurnde on a stone.
     And downe he fyl backwarde upon his wyfe

Derived terms

• spurner

Translations

Noun

spurn (plural spurns)

1. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
2. A kick; a blow with the foot.
3. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
4. (mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

Translations

References

Icelandic

Noun

spurn f (genitive singular spurnar, nominative plural spurnir)

1. Used in set phrases

   Ég hafði spurnir af Ara.

   I received news of Ari.

Declension

Derived terms

• afspurn

Middle English

Etymology 1

A back-formation from spurnen.

Alternative forms

• sporn, spurne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spurn/

Noun

spurn

1. (rare) A stumbling; a collapse.
2. (rare) A strike or blow using one's feet.

Descendants

• English: spurn

References

• “spurn(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.

Etymology 2

Verb

spurn

1. Alternative form of spurnen

English

Verb

spurns

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spurn

Noun

spurns

1. plural of spurn