dern

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   secret or hidden; (dialectally) to darn or mend

   In the old ballad the lovers kept their dern meetings by the river.

From Old English dierne ('secret, hidden, dark'), from Proto-West Germanic *darni ('hidden'). Now archaic and dialectal; the verb sense 'to darn or mend' is a dialectal variant of darn.

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