Carn vs Scarn - What's the difference?
carn | scarn |
(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!", ''
* 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected",
* 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC",
* 2011' October 11, "'''Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", ''
As an interjection carn
is come on.As a noun scarn is
dung.carn
English
Interjection
(en interjection)The Argus
The Sydney Morning Herald
- Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.
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."
Herald Sun
