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garn¹

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)n

Where it comes from

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.

noun gairn

  1. dialectal, obsolete, uncountable Yarn (twisted fibers for weaving) or worsted (woolen yarn).

garn²

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)n

Where it comes from

From go on.

interjection

  1. Cockney, slang A response that expresses disbelief or mockery. 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?

Garn³

proper noun

  1. A surname. 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 incomp

noun

  1. no plural A unit used to measure nausea. A score of one Garn means the sufferer is fully incapacitated. 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 incomp

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@misc{garn_2026,
  title = {garn},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/garn},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}