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==English== |
==English== |
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===Etymology=== |
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===Pronunciation=== |
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* {{rhymes|en|ɑː(ɹ)b|s=1}} |
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===Noun=== |
===Noun=== |
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[[File:He Resolves Not to Smoke (1915).png|thumb|"He Resolves Not to Smoke" (USA, 1915)]] |
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# {{lb|en|slang}} Something [[beautiful]], a [[charm]], a [[peach]]. |
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#* {{quote-text|en|year=1915|title=He Resolves Not to Smoke |
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# {{context|slang|lang=en}} Something [[beautiful]], a [[charm]], a [[peach]]. |
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|passage=Ain't it a darb?}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1931|author=Courtney Ryley Cooper|title=Circus Day|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pe5CAAAAIAAJ&q=%22darb%22%7C%22darbs%22+cigarette+OR+smoke+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22darb%22%7C%22darbs%22+cigarette+OR+smoke+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PnI2T43DAuXEmAX33IT2AQ&redir_esc=y|page=263 |
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#*: “Boss,” he exclaimed, “it's a '''darb'''.” |
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|passage=“Boss,” he exclaimed, “it's a '''darb'''.”<br>“It's more than that,” I cut in, “it′s a wonder. It′s a masterpiece.{{...}}”}} |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1934|title=Story|volume=4|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=67YPAAAAIAAJ&q=%22darb%22%7C%22darbs%22+cigarette+OR+smoke+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22darb%22%7C%22darbs%22+cigarette+OR+smoke+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3m02T9nmOevOmAWI96ibAg&redir_esc=y|page=35 |
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|passage=‘My new bird is a '''darb''',’ he says, ‘only four months old and he′s got a roll and a chop the size of your arm. Never heard a young bird sing like that.’}} |
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#* '''1941''', ''Amazing Stories'', Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=zhdXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22darb%22|%22darbs%22+cigarette+OR+smoke+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22darb%22|%22darbs%22+cigarette+OR+smoke+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iG82T8j2FIrumAWGufGRAg&redir_esc=y page 21], |
#* '''1941''', ''Amazing Stories'', Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=zhdXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22darb%22|%22darbs%22+cigarette+OR+smoke+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22darb%22|%22darbs%22+cigarette+OR+smoke+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iG82T8j2FIrumAWGufGRAg&redir_esc=y page 21], |
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#*: You can figure for yourself what a '''darb''' of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers! |
#*: You can figure for yourself what a '''darb''' of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers! |
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# {{lb|en|Australia|slang}} A [[cigarette]]. |
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====Synonyms==== |
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* {{sense|cigarette}} [[death stick]], [[durrie]] |
* {{sense|cigarette}} [[death stick]], [[durrie]] |
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===Anagrams=== |
===Anagrams=== |
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* {{anagrams|en|a=abdr|Bard|bard|drab|BARD|brad|Brad}} |
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* [[bard#English|bard]] |
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* [[brad#English|brad]], [[Brad#English|Brad]] |
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* [[drab#English|drab]] |
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[[Category:en:Smoking]] |
[[Category:en:Smoking]] |
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==Irish== |
==Irish== |
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===Alternative forms=== |
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* {{l|ga|[[dar]] [[b’]]}} {{qualifier|superseded}} |
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===Particle=== |
===Particle=== |
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{{ga-preposition contractions}} |
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[[fr:darb]] |
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[[ko:darb]] |
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[[ku:darb]] |
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[[uz:darb]] |
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Latest revision as of 17:17, 30 June 2024
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b
Noun
[edit]darb (plural darbs)
- (slang) Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.
- 1915, He Resolves Not to Smoke:
- Ain't it a darb?
- 1931, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Circus Day, page 263:
- “Boss,” he exclaimed, “it's a darb.”
“It's more than that,” I cut in, “it′s a wonder. It′s a masterpiece. […] ”
- 1934, Story, volume 4, page 35:
- ‘My new bird is a darb,’ he says, ‘only four months old and he′s got a roll and a chop the size of your arm. Never heard a young bird sing like that.’
- 1941, Amazing Stories, Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6, page 21,
- You can figure for yourself what a darb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers!
- (Australia, slang) A cigarette.
Synonyms
[edit]- (cigarette): death stick, durrie
Anagrams
[edit]Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Particle
[edit]darb (present/future copular form used before a vowel, form used before a consonant dar)
Derived terms
[edit]- darb ainm (“(who is) called, named”)
Related terms
[edit]Irish copular forms
Simple copular forms
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Compound copular forms
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v Used before vowel sounds |
Irish preposition contractions
Basic form | Contracted with | Copular forms | ||||||||
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an (“the sg”) | na (“the pl”) | mo (“my”) | do (“your”) | a (“his, her, their; which (present)”) | ár (“our”) | ar (“which (past)”) | (before consonant) | (present/future before vowel) | (past/conditional before vowel) | |
de (“from”) | den | de na desna* |
de mo dem* |
de do ded*, det* |
dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
do (“to, for”) | don | do na dosna* |
do mo dom* |
do do dod*, dot* |
dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
faoi (“under, about”) | faoin | faoi na | faoi mo | faoi do | faoina | faoinár | faoinar | faoinarb | faoinarbh | |
i (“in”) | sa, san | sna | i mo im* |
i do id*, it* |
ina | inár | inar | inarb | inarbh | |
le (“with”) | leis an | leis na | le mo lem* |
le do led*, let* |
lena | lenár | lenar | lenarb | lenarbh | |
ó (“from, since”) | ón | ó na ósna* |
ó mo óm* |
ó do ód*, ót* |
óna | ónár | ónar | ónarb | ónarbh | |
trí (“through”) | tríd an | trí na | trí mo | trí do | trína | trínár | trínar | trínarb | trínarbh | |
*Dialectal. |