Carn vs Yarn - What's the difference?
carn | yarn |
(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", ''
(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
(nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
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As an interjection carn
is come on.As a noun yarn is
a twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.As a verb yarn is
to tell a story.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
Anagrams
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English
Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn , but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
