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kyarn

kyarn noun: carrion or anything foul-smelling, offal, manure. Also the nonstandard form of can.

Noun

kyarn (uncountable)

  1. (Southern US, dialectal, rare) Carrion or anything foul-smelling, offal, manure.
    • It stinks worse 'an kyarn.2008, Carolyn Digh Griffin, Hope Returns, →ISBN, page 313

Also used as

kyarn is also the nonstandard form of can.

Origin of kyarn

Pronunciation spelling of carrion.

Questions about kyarn

What does kyarn mean?
Kyarn means carrion or anything foul-smelling, offal, manure.
What part of speech is kyarn?
Kyarn is a noun.

Words near kyarn in the dictionary

  1. kyanophilous
  2. kyanophyll
  3. kyanoxalite
  4. kyar
  5. kyaraben
  6. kyarn
  7. kyarn'
  8. kyarn't
  9. Kyarran
  10. kyars
  11. Kyasanur forest disease

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