Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

garn

/ɡˈɑɹn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English

Syllables: garn
IPA: /ɡˈɑɹn/

5

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Yarn (twisted fibers for weaving) or worsted (woolen yarn).

Obsolete; Uncountable

intj

A response that expresses disbelief or mockery.

Slang

name

noun

A unit used to measure nausea. A score of one Garn means the sufferer is fully incapacitated.

Example Sentences

"mrs pearce. […] But you dont know anything about her. What about her parents? She may be married. / liza. Garn! / higgins. There! As the girl very properly says, Garn! Married indeed! Dont you know that a woman of that class looks a worn out drudge of fifty a year after shes married?"
""[…] This is going to mean a gold watch and a week's outing at Southend with full pay for both of us or I'm a Dutchman." "Garn!""
"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."

Etymology

From Middle English garn, from Old Norse garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną (“intestine, chord, yarn”). Akin to Danish garn (“yarn”), Swedish garn (“yarn”), Old English ġearn (“yarn”). Doublet of yarn.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: garn, *garną

Usage

Inflected Forms

gairn (alternative, dialectal)

Phrases

Garn scale

Rhymes With

barn darn yarn arne carne arn karn carn harn starn varn tarn

Questions

How do you pronounce garn?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɡˈɑɹn/.
What does garn mean?: Yarn (twisted fibers for weaving) or worsted (woolen yarn).
Where does garn come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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