Definitions
Etymologies
- From go on. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“Sadly we didn't manage to squeeze in my favourite saying - tangled up in yarn = 'Fångad i någons garn'.”
“The word 'yarn / garn' didn't translate the idea of a story in Swedish, so we had to be creative.”
“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!”
“JOE EARS (Southern, by the grace of God): We are not hearin 'this dal garn bullroar!”
“Maybe, maybe not," he replied, "but I think it's worth the garn - Look out!”
“A fenced garn is my sister, my spouse, a spring shet up, a fountain seäled.”
“Let my beloved come into his garn, an ait his pleasant fruits.”
“Wake, O north win, an come, ye south; blow upon my garn, dat de spices of it may flow out.”
“Laws! who's garn to pay out money fer fortygraphs?”
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science
Lists
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The Measure of Man
Unusual, arcane, or obscure units of measure
cable, cabot, bushel, cade, caliper, callipic cycle, metonic cycle, cunit, air watt, ale gallon, allergy unit, amber and 228 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
dictionaries,these are from Macquarie
Dictionary and not playable in
scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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frivolous units of measurement
gleaned from the interweb
machturtle, picoboo, won ton, octopuss, gigolo, millihelen, millipicture, ivy league, fig newton, eskimo pi, angstrom, mole and 52 more...
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ithuriel's Words
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sionnach 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. Jul 28, 2008