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单词 garn
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garnn.

/ˈɡɑːn/
Forms: Also Middle English garne, 1800s gairn, gain.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse garn.
Etymology: < Old Norse garn = Old English gearn , yarn n. See also garnwin n., windle n.3
northern dialect.
Yarn or worsted (see quot. 1876).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > woollen > for sewing or knitting > specific
Norfolk thread1407
garn1483
crewel1494
caddis1530
worsted yarn1533
worsted1546
fingering1681
German wool1807
wheel-spuna1825
Berlin wool1841
ice wool1876
Berlin1881
eis wool1882
quick-knit1935
bawneen1958
1483 Cath. Angl. 150/2 Garne (A. Garne siue ȝarn), pensum. To wynd Garne, jurgillare.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. at Draw-gere Yarn, still in the North call'd Garn; wooll workt into a thread.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Gain or Garn, woollen yarn or worsted; though gain is made of short wool and is coarser [than worsted].
Phrase.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 37 Ther is garn on the reyll Other, my dame.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

garnint.

/ɡɑːn/
Etymology: Representing a regional (especially cockney) pronunciation of go on (see to go on 3b at go v. Phrasal verbs 1).
colloquial and regional.
‘Go on’, often used to express disbelief or ridicule of a statement (see to go on 3b at go v. Phrasal verbs 1).
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1886 in H. Baumann Londinismen 62/1.
1888 J. Runciman Chequers 80 Garn, you farthin' face!
1914 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion 1, in Nash's Mag. Nov. 152/2 The Note Taker (whipping out his book). Heavens! what a sound!..Ah—ah—ah—ow—ow—ow—oo! The Flower Girl (tickled by the performance, and laughing in spite of herself). Garn!
1922 ‘R. Crompton’ Just—William viii. 166 Garn! S'ours! We found it.
1925 Glasgow Herald 9 Jan. 8 He complained that if he used such words as ‘garn’ or ‘struth’ he was accused of vulgarity, whereas were he capable of imitating the peculiar sounds such as were heard from those north of the Tweed he would be able to move in any society.
1968 A. Holden Death after School iii. 22Garn,’ called out someone, ‘tell us somefing we don't know!’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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