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Carn vs Cairn - What's the difference?

carn | cairn |

As an interjection carn

is come on.

As a noun cairn is

a rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

carn

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (Australia, informal) Come on.
  • (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (especially football) team.
  • * 1956' September 10, "'''Carn the Magpies!", '' The Argus
  • * 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected", The Sydney Morning Herald
    • Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.
  • * 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC", The Age
    • Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn', they cry, ' carn … feebly at first."
  • * 2011' October 11, "'''Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", '' Herald Sun

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    cairn

    English

    (wikipedia cairn)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
    • Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn . -Campbell.
  • A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
  • A cairn terrier.

    • Derived terms

    * cairned * cairn terrier

    Synonyms

    * burial mound

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