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Definition of Darned
1. Adjective. Expletives used informally as intensifiers. "An infernal nuisance"
Similar to: Cursed, Curst
Derivative terms: Damned
Definition of Darned
1. Verb. (past of darn) See (term darn#Etymology 1 etymology 1 damn) and (term darn#Etymology 2 etymology 2 mend) ¹
2. Adjective. (euphemistic) A minced oath for damned ¹
3. Adverb. (context: degree) Damned, extremely ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Darned
1. damned [adj DARNEDER, DARNEDEST or DARNDEST] - See also: damned
Lexicographical Neighbors of Darned
Literary usage of Darned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Songs of the Cowboys by Nathan Howard Thorp (1921)
"But I never spilled a cuss-word and I never spilled a squeal — I was buildin'
reputation on that gol-darned wheel. Holy Moses and the Prophets how we split ..."
2. Songs of the Cowboys by Nathan Howard Thorp (1921)
"But I never spilled a cuss-word and I never spilled a squeal — I was buildin'
reputation on that-gol-darned wheel. Holy Moses and the Prophets how we split ..."
3. Old Lace: A Handbook for Collectors; an Account of the Different Styles of by Margaret Jourdain (1908)
"LACIS OK darned NETTING. DRAWN-THREAD work was known in Egypt in the ... What is
known as Lads is darned work upon a network of meshes (known as réseau, ..."
4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... darned netting, divided by linen cut-work bands. The squares are worked with
groups representing the twelve months, and with scenes from the old Spanish ..."
5. A Handbook for Sewing School Teachers (1893)
"If the darned cashmere patch is to be kept, it should be neatly trimmed, ...
Darn this in the same way that the three-cornered tear was darned on the ..."
6. Herodotus by Herodotus (1828)
"... against the Athenians and Argives, which completed the predicted number.
darned and left him; but as the disease continued to spread still farther among ..."
7. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"... is coming in black again in spots. like a darned fool, and eaten fifteen I
wear a sixteen-and-a-half collar instead pounds back onto me. of an eighteen ..."
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