darb
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b
Noun
darb (plural darbs)
- (Australia, slang) A cigarette.
- (slang) Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.
- 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!
Synonyms
- (cigarette): death stick, durrie
Anagrams
Irish
Alternative forms
Particle
darb (present/future copular form used before a vowel, form used before a consonant dar)
Derived terms
- darb ainm (“(who is) called, named”)
Related terms
Irish copular forms
Simple copular forms
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Compound copular forms
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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 | |
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