dern
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Is dern a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) No
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends No
What is the meaning of dern?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A secret; secrecy.obsolete
2. (obsolete) A secret place; hiding.obsolete
3. (obsolete) An obscure language.obsolete
4. (obsolete) Darkness; obscurity.obsolete
adj (English)
1. (obsolete, dialectal) Hidden; secret; private.Examples: "Now with their backs to the den's mouth they sit, / Yet shoulder not all light from the dern pit."; "Through dreary beds of tangled fern, / Through groves of nightshade dark and dern."dialectalobsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To hide; secrete, as in a hole.Examples: "He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth."obsoletetransitive
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To hide oneself; skulk.Examples: "But look how soon they heard of Holoferne / Their courage quail'd, and they began to derne."intransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (UK) A gatepost or doorpost.Examples: "1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Ch. XIV, How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings So I just put my eye between the wall and the dern of the gate, and I saw him come up to the back door […]"UK
Definition source: Wiktionary