Barned vs Darned - What's the difference?
barned | darned |
(barn)
(label) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
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, title= (label) A unit of surface area equal to 10-28 square metres.
An arena.
To lay up in a barn.
* Shakespeare
(darn) See
(euphemistic) A minced oath for damned
(degree) Damned, extremely
As verbs the difference between barned and darned
is that barned is (barn) while darned is (darn) see.As an adjective darned is
(euphemistic) a minced oath for damned .As an adverb darned is
(degree) damned, extremely.barned
English
Verb
(head)barn
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) bern, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Derived terms
* barnstar * barnstorm * barnyard * barn dance * barn door * barn owl * barn-raising * born in a barn * raised in a barn * smell the barnVerb
(en verb)- Men often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
- (Fuller)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) barn, bern, from (etyl) .Synonyms
* (child) bairnAnagrams
* * English syncopic forms ----darned
English
Alternative forms
* darn'dVerb
(head)Adjective
(-)Adverb
(-)- That was darned nice of him, wasn't it?
- He is do darned pig-headed.