Darn vs Darb - What's the difference?
darn | darb |
(euphemistic) Damn.
(degree, euphemistic) Damned.
(sewing) To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.
* Jonathan Swift
(Australia, slang) A cigarette.
(slang) Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.
* 1931 , Courtney Ryley Cooper, Circus Day ,
* 1934 , Story , Volume 4,
* 1941 , Amazing Stories , Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6,
As nouns the difference between darn and darb
is that darn is a place mended by darning while darb is a cigarette.As an adjective darn
is damn.As an adverb darn
is damned.As an interjection darn
is damn.As a verb darn
is euphemism of damn.darn
English
Etymology 1
Alteration ofAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* darn tootin'Adverb
(-)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* darn tootin'Synonyms
* dang * damnEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- I need to darn these socks again.
- He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockings.
Anagrams
* * * English degree adverbsdarb
English
Noun
(en noun)page 263,
- “Boss,” he exclaimed, “it's a darb .”
- “It's more than that,” I cut in, “it?s a wonder. It?s a masterpiece.”
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- ‘My new bird is a darb ,’ he says, ‘only four months old and he?s got a roll and a chop the size of your arm. Never heard a young bird sing like that.’
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- You can figure for yourself what a darb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers!