FromMiddle Englishyarne,ȝern,yarn, from theOld Englishġearn(“yarn, spun wool”), fromProto-West Germanic*garn, fromProto-Germanic*garną(“yarn”), fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰorn-,*ǵʰerH-(“tharm, guts, intestines”).

• (Received Pronunciation)enPR:yän,IPA^(key):/jɑːn/
• (US)enPR:yärn,IPA^(key):/jɑɹn/

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• Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)n

yarn (countable anduncountable,pluralyarns)

1. (uncountable) Atwistedstrand offiber used forknitting orweaving.
2. (nautical)Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to formstrands, which in their turn are twisted orplaited to formrope.
3. (countable) Astory, atale, especially one that isincredible.
   • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:

     I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during myyarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay,Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith, published1965,→OCLC, page218:

     "I'm hanged if I know how you've got the immortal rind to come at me with ayarn like this."

   • 2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, inLos Angeles Review of Books‎^[1]:

     Statistically, this person is also likely to be male and well off, but more essentially this person wants to be educated, to be obsessed, wants more than just a goodyarn.

• (story or tale):story,tale

• (fiber strand):worsted

• hank
• twine
• thread

yarn (third-person singular simple presentyarns,present participleyarning,simple past and past participleyarned)

1. (intransitive) To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true.
   • 1897, Rudyard Kipling,Captains Courageous:

     "Heyarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em."

   • 1935,Christopher Isherwood,Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title:The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, inThe Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,^[2]

     “Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoonyarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”

   • 1942,Neville Shute, chapter 7, inPied Piper‎^[3], New York: William Morrow & Co:

     They had stayed in some little pension and had gone for little, bored walks while the colonel went out in the boats with the fisherman, or satyarning with them in the café.

• yarn dust
• yarn on
• yarner

• Arny,N-ray,NYRA,Ryan,n-ary,nary

• ȝarn,ȝern,ȝerne,jarne,yarne,yeern

FromOld Englishġearn, fromProto-West Germanic*garn, fromProto-Germanic*garną.Doublet ofgarn.

• IPA^(key):/ˈjarn/,/ˈjɛːrn/,/ˈjɛrn/

yarn (uncountable)

1. Yarn; a length of fibre used to weave.

   Synonym:garn

• English:yarn
• Scots:yairn

• “yarn,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2018-08-05.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈjaɾn/[ˈjaɹn̪]
• Rhymes:-aɾn
• Syllabification:yarn

yarn (Baybayin spellingᜌᜇ᜔ᜈ᜔)(gayslang,humorous)

1. Alternative form ofiyan

   Galityarn?

   They angry?