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Etymology

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Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b

Noun

darb (plural darbs)

"He Resolves Not to Smoke" (USA, 1915)

(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!
- 1958, Alexander King, chapter 21, in Mine Enemy Grows Older, New York: Simon and Schuster:
  I looked at the snapshot of his sister for a long while, and I suddenly pitied the Hallmark people, and all the other sterile unfortunates who are manufacturing and consuming ready-made greeting cards, because, even among their choicest items, among their most expensive numbers, they had never been able to corner a Christmas angel that deserved to hold a candle to little Tessa Pavlic. She was a darb.
  "She's very beautiful," I said, handing him back his picture.
(Australia, slang) A cigarette.

Synonyms

(cigarette): death stick, durrie

Anagrams

Bard, bard, drab, BARD, brad, Brad

Irish

Alternative forms

dar b’ (superseded)

Particle

darb (present/future copular form used before a vowel, form used before a consonant dar)

to/for which/whom is
an fear darb aithnid mé ― the man who knows me
from which/whom is

Derived terms

darb ainm (“(who is) called, named”)

Related terms

Irish copular forms
simple copular forms
		affirmative	negative	interrogative	negative interrogative
present/future
main clause		is	ní	an	nach
relative clause	direct	is	nach	–
relative clause	indirect	ar, arb^v		–
other subordinate clause		gur, gurb^v		an	nach
past/conditional
main clause		ba, b’^v	níor, níorbh^v	ar, arbh^v	nár, nárbh^v
relative clause	direct	ba, ab^v	nár, nárbh^v	–
relative clause	indirect	ar, arbh^v		–
other subordinate clause		gur, gurbh^v		ar, arbh^v	nár, nárbh^v
present subjunctive
–		gura, gurab^v	nára, nárab^v	–

compound copular forms
base word		present/future		past/conditional
cá		cár, cárb^v		cár, cárbh^v
cé		cér, cérb^v		cér, cérbh^v
dá		–		dá mba, dá mb’^v
de/do		dar, darb^v		dar, darbh^v
faoi		faoinar, faoinarb^v		faoinar, faoinarbh^v
i		inar, inarb^v		inar, inarbh^v
le		lenar, lenarb^v		lenar, lenarbh^v
má		más		má ba, má b’^v
mura		mura, murab^v		murar, murarbh^v
ó (preposition)		ónar, ónarb^v		ónar, ónarbh^v
ó (conjunction)		ós		ó ba, ó b’^v
trí		trínar, trínarb^v		trínar, trínarbh^v

^v Used before vowel sounds

Irish preposition contractions

Basic form	Contracted with							Copular forms
Basic form	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.

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