Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

narm

/ˈnɑː(ɹ)m/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English

Syllables: narm
IPA: /ˈnɑː(ɹ)m/

6

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A scene in a piece of media that is portrayed as serious but unintentionally seen as funny.

Countable; Slang; Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by TV Tropes in 2007, referring to a scene in Six Feet Under's final season where main protagonist Nate Fisher complains about his arm being numb while suffering a brain embolism and repeats the words "numb arm", quickly slurring them into the single syllable "narm".

Usage

Inflected Forms

narms (plural)

Rhymes With

farm arm harm alarm charm secular arm disarm parm gendarme rearm yarm sarm

Questions

How do you pronounce narm?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈnɑː(ɹ)m/.
What does narm mean?: A scene in a piece of media that is portrayed as serious but unintentionally seen as funny.
Where does narm come from?: Coined by TV Tropes in 2007, referring to a scene in Six Feet Under's final season where main protagonist Nate Fisher complains about his arm being numb while suffering a brain embolism and repeats the words "numb arm", quickly slurring them into the single syllable "narm".

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