DARNED


Meaning of DARNED in English

/dahrnd/ , Informal.

adj.

1. irritating; damned; confounded: Get that darned bicycle out of the driveway!

adv.

2. very; extremely; remarkably: She's a darned good tennis player.

[ 1800-10; euphemism for DAMNED, perh. by construing dern dark, dreary (now obs.) as an intensifier in phrases such as dern and dreary, dern and doleful ]

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