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語源

From 中期英語 yarne, ȝern, yarn, from the 古期英語 ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Proto-West Germanic *garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰerH- (“tharm, guts, intestines”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yän, IPA: /jɑːn/
• (米国発音) enPR: yärn, IPA: /jɑɹn/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)n
• Homophone: Jan (non-rhotic)

名詞

yarn (countable and uncountable, plural yarns)

1. (uncountable) A twisted strand of fibre used for knitting or weaving.
2. (nautical) Bundles of fibres twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
3. (countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.

   spin a yarn

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 218:

     "I'm hanged if I know how you've got the immortal rind to come at me with a yarn like this."

   • 2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, in Los Angeles Review of Books‎:

     Statistically, this person is also likely to be male and well off, but more essentially this person wants to be educated, to be obsessed, wants more than just a good yarn.

同意語

• (story or tale): story, tale

下位語

• (fiber strand): worsted

派生語

参考

• hank
• twine
• thread

動詞

yarn (third-person singular simple present yarns, present participle yarning, simple past and past participle yarned)

1. (intransitive) To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true.
   • 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:

     "He yarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em."

   • 1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,

     “Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”

   • 1942, Neville Shute, chapter 7, in Pied Piper‎, New York: William Morrow & Co:

     They had stayed in some little pension and had gone for little, bored walks while the colonel went out in the boats with the fisherman, or sat yarning with them in the café.

派生語

• yarn dust
• yarn on
• yarner

アナグラム

• Arny, N-ray, NYRA, Ryan, n-ary, nary

語源

From 古期英語 ġearn, from Proto-West Germanic *garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną. Doublet of garn.

発音

• IPA: /ˈjarn/, /ˈjɛːrn/, /ˈjɛrn/

名詞

yarn (uncountable)

1. Yarn; a length of fibre used to weave.

   Synonym: garn

派生した語

• English: yarn
• Scots: yairn

参照

• “yarn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 August 2018.