kyarn
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.