kyarn

See also: Kyarn

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation spelling of carrion

Noun

kyarn (uncountable)

1. (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

Verb

kyarn

1. (Southern US, dialect, rare) Nonstandard form of can.

References

• 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.

Anagrams

• Karyn, narky