carn
/kɑːn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
Australian usage; Informal
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "The Druid Carns are generally fenced round the bottom, by a circle of stones: these Carns had always on their summits, a large flat stone, on which the Druid fires were lighted […]"
- "Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us. "Carn, kid. No guts, no glory." "I don't think so," I said. "It's the only way home now.""
- "Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes."
- "Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn, they cry, carn … feebly at first.""
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