DERN • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Dern

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

adjective

Dern adj.

Hidden; concealed; secret. (Obs.) "Ye must be full dern."

Solitary; sad. (Obs.)

See images of 'Dern'

Etymology of 'Dern'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Dern" Quotes from Famous Books

... ear to de key-hole, in de study, war dey axed de ossifer. My 'spicions was roused by de words he 'dressed to me wen I opened de front do', for you see, dat ole nigger watch-dog ob dern, dat has nebber a good word for nobody, was gone to market, an' Madame Raymond she hel' de watch, an' she sont me from de kitchen to mine ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... are a dern fool, Hopewell—and mebbe I'm one!" declared Mr. Cross Moore, suddenly rising. Then he bolted for the door and went out without ...

— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long

... "Dern it all, Pete, I 'm blamed if I know; leastwise, I ain't got no sure prove-up. I tell ye thet girl's just about the toughest piece o' rock I ever had any special call to assay. I think first I got her good an' proper, an' then she drops ...

— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish

... take as much stock in the Scripters as you'd oughter, but this thing o'callin' a wurrum Adam named plain Caterpillar a—a—what'd you say the dum beast's name was? My sufferin' Savior! is jest about the wust dern foolishness yet! I lay it at the Pope's door, every mite o' it, an' you'd better believe he'll have to answer for sech carryin's on, some o' ...

— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler