dern

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A secret; secrecy. obsolete
  2. A gatepost or doorpost. UK
    — 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 […]
  3. A secret place; hiding. obsolete
  4. An obscure language. obsolete
  5. Darkness; obscurity. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To hide; secrete, as in a hole. obsolete,transitive
    — He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth.
  2. To hide oneself; skulk. intransitive,obsolete
    — But look how soon they heard of Holoferne / Their courage quail'd, and they began to derne.
形容词 adj.
  1. Hidden; secret; private. dialectal,obsolete
    — Now with their backs to the den's mouth they sit, / Yet shoulder not all light from the dern pit.

词形变化

derns plural more dern comparative most dern superlative derns present,singular,third-person derning participle,present derned participle,past derned past derns plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dernful in dern
相关词
darn tarnish

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dern, derne, from Old English dyrne, dierne (“secret”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”).
词源 2
From Middle English dern, derne, from Old English dyrne, dierne (“hidden, secret, retired, obscure, remote, eluding detection, concealed, deceitful, evil, magical”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Doublet of terne.
词源 3
From Middle English dernen, dærnen, from Old English dyrnan, diernan (“to keep secret, conceal, hide, restrain, repress, hide oneself”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan (“to conceal”), from *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Cognate with Old Saxon dernian (“to conceal”), German tarnen (“to camouflage, disguise”). See also darn, tarnish.
词源 4
Uncertain. Maybe related to door.
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