darn
noun/dɑːn/
/dɑːrn/
- a place on a piece of clothing that has been repaired by darning
- a sweater with darns in the elbows
Word Originnoun early 17th cent.: perhaps from dialect dern ‘to hide’, which is from Old English diernan, of West Germanic origin; compare with Middle Dutch dernen ‘stop holes in (a dyke)’.Definitions on the go
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