Scary vs Scarn - What's the difference?
scary | scarn |
Causing or able to cause fright
(US, colloquial, dated) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
* 1916 , Texas Department of Agriculture, Bulletin (issues 47-57), page 150:
Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
As nouns the difference between scary and scarn
is that scary is barren land having only a thin coat of grass while scarn is (obsolete|uk|dialect) dung.As an adjective scary
is causing or able to cause fright.scary
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)- The tiger's jaws were scary.
- She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.
- (Whittier)
- And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a little scary of the snare.