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Barned vs Borned - What's the difference?

barned | borned |

As verbs the difference between barned and borned

is that barned is (barn) while borned is (nonstandard) born.

barned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (barn)

    • barn

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) bern, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
  • * , chapter=11
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.}}
  • (label) A unit of surface area equal to 10-28 square metres.
  • An arena.
    • Derived terms
    * barnstar * barnstorm * barnyard * barn dance * barn door * barn owl * barn-raising * born in a barn * raised in a barn * smell the barn

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lay up in a barn.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Men often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
    (Fuller)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) barn, bern, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.
    • Synonyms
    * (child) bairn

    Anagrams

    * * English syncopic forms ----

    borned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) born
  • *{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Harold Bell Wright, title=The Re-Creation of Brian Kent, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="I was borned over there on yon side that there flat-topped mountain, nigh the mouth of Red Creek. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Ruth McEnery Stuart, title=Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Yer 'ain't said nothin' 'bout yo' ma an' de ole black 'oman's baby bein' borned de same day, is yer? }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Bret Harte, title=Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When he had finally effected his object, and, as it were, safely landed his prize in a chair, Mr. McCorkle took off his hat, carefully wiped the narrow isthmus of forehead which divided his black brows from his stubby hair, and with an explanatory wave of his hand toward his reluctant companion, said, "A borned poet, and the cussedest fool you ever seed!" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1812, author=James Reynolds, title=Journal of an American Prisoner at Fort Malden and Quebec in the War of 1812, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Women deprived of decency are the damdest creatures that ever were borned . 7th. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1908, author=Edith Van Dyne, title=Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=They dresses as fine as the Queen o' Sheba, Tom says; but they romp 'round just like they was borned in the country. }}