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Synonymer

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) A secret; secrecy.
  2. (UK, dialect) A gatepost or doorpost.
  3. (now chiefly dialectal) A secret place; hiding.
  4. (now chiefly dialectal) An obscure language.
  5. (now chiefly dialectal) Darkness; obscurity.

Adjektiv

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) Hidden; secret; private.

Verb

  1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To hide; secrete, as in a hole.
  2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To hide oneself; skulk.

Exempel

  • Now with their backs to the den's mouth they sit, / Yet shoulder not all light from the dern pit.
  • Through dreary beds of tangled fern, / Through groves of nightshade dark and dern.
  • He at length escaped them by derning himself in a fox-earth. ― H. Miller.
  • But look how soon they heard of Holoferne / Their courage quail'd, and they began to derne. ― T. Hudson.
  • 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.., Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!, Ch. XIV, How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipdernedImperfektderned
PresensparticipderningPluralderns
Komparativmore dernSuperlativmost dern
Tredje person singular indicativ presensderns

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