kyarn
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See also: Kyarn
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation spelling of carrion
Noun
[edit]kyarn (uncountable)
- (Southern US, dialect, rare) Carrion or anything foul-smelling, offal, manure.
- 2008, Carolyn Digh Griffin, Hope Returns, →ISBN, page 313:
- It stinks worse 'an kyarn.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]kyarn
- (Southern US, dialect, rare) Nonstandard form of can.
References
[edit]- Frederic G[omes] Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall, editors (December 1996), “kyarn”, in Dictionary of American Regional English, volumes III (I–O), Cambridge, Mass., London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN.