Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectic form of
yarn .
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- interjection A response that expresses disbelief or mockery.
- noun obsolete
yarn (twisted fibers for weaving)
Etymologies
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Examples
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I regret to inform the TP crowd that republican utah senate majority leader kevin garn has resigned to spend more time in the hot tub.
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I regret to inform the TP crowd that republican utah senate majority leader kevin garn has resigned to spend more time in the hot tub.
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Sadly we didn't manage to squeeze in my favourite saying - tangled up in yarn = 'Fångad i någons garn'.
Archive 2009-04-01 Ele 2009
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Sadly we didn't manage to squeeze in my favourite saying - tangled up in yarn = 'Fångad i någons garn'.
Fångad i någons garn Ele 2009
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The word 'yarn / garn' didn't translate the idea of a story in Swedish, so we had to be creative.
Archive 2009-04-01 Ele 2009
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The word 'yarn / garn' didn't translate the idea of a story in Swedish, so we had to be creative.
Fångad i någons garn Ele 2009
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I'm sure those good old folk at that big ol' parliament they got there know what they are doing, and I'm thankful for all they do for me in my name because they are so much more wiser and more cleverer than little ol' me... and' dosh garn it, if they say that it's not a constitution, well, I believe them!
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JOE EARS (Southern, by the grace of God): We are not hearin 'this dal garn bullroar!
joegood Diary Entry joegood 2001
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"Maybe, maybe not," he replied, "but I think it's worth the garn - Look out!"
Nine Princes In Amber Zelazny, Roger 1970
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A fenced garn is my sister, my spouse, a spring shet up, a fountain seäled.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
sionnach commented on the word garn
A measure of severity of space sickness:
"Jake Garn was sick, was pretty sick. I don't know whether we should tell stories like that. But anyway, Jake Garn, he has made a mark in the Astronaut Corps because he represents the maximum level of space sickness that anyone can ever attain, and so the mark of being totally sick and totally incompetent is one Garn. Most guys will get maybe to a tenth Garn, if that high. And within the Astronaut Corps, he forever will be remembered by that."
Dr. Robert Stevenson; Johnson Space Center Oral History Project.
See also origin of the term garn , which suggests that Doonesbury may have played a role in the term's origin.
July 28, 2008