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verb

Darn v. t. (past & past part. darned; pres. part. darning) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. "He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in darning his stockings."

Darning last. See under Last.

Darning needle.

(a)

A long, strong needle for mending holes or rents, especially in stockings.

(b)

(Zool.) Any species of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings. Note: (In this sense, usually written with a hyphen.) Called also devil's darning-needle.

Darn v. t. A colloquial euphemism for Damn.

adjective

darned adj. An intensifying expletive; a eupehmism for damned; as, for no darned reason at all.

Synonyms: blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, gosh-darned.

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Etymology of 'Darned'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Darned" Quotes from Famous Books

... old, old shop, Where I printed the Punktown Dirk, And the toil and stress with the darned old press ...

— Rippling Rhymes • Walt Mason

... Christmas Day that the widow Blake fought the good fight in her little six-by-nine room. On the bed lay a black cashmere gown, faded and rusty and carefully darned; on the table lay a little heap of bills and silver. The woman gathered the money in her two hands and dropped it into her lap; then she smoothed the bills neatly one upon another, and built little pyramids of the dimes and quarters. Fifteen dollars! ...

— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter

... "I'll be darned," he said, thoughtfully, "if I can make head or tail of it! It would be funny if it wasn't that she's taking it so hard. She was in bed, and she had ...

— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris

... spoke of it to Betty, the only person to whom she ever talked of Ethie. Even with her she was usually very reticent, unless something brought the wanderer to mind more vividly than usual. Cleaning her room was such an occasion, and sitting down upon the floor, while she darned a hole in the carpet which the turning had brought to view, Aunt Barbara spoke of her darling, and the time when, a little toddling thing of two years old, she first came to the homestead, and was laid in that very room, and "on that very pillow," ...

— Ethelyn's Mistake • Mary Jane Holmes

... timber—gormandized the whole lot—must have gone in for the timber business. So I bin cuttin' spruce up there on the hill. Wal, I often seen you drilling holes in this muck, but damn me if I ever seen your pard put a hand to the spade. He seems to live in that darned tent. I seen him twice hiking out—to Dawson, for a jag, I guess. Didn't seem on the ...

— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild

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