emphasis People sometimes use darn or darned to emphasize what they are saying, often when they are annoyed. There's not a darn thing he can do about it = damn, damned Darn is also an adverb. the desire to be free to do just as we darn well please
something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks"
If you darn something knitted or made of cloth, you mend a hole in it by sewing stitches across the hole and then weaving stitches in and out of them. Aunt Emilie darned old socks + darning darn·ing chores such as sewing and darning