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darb

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Noun

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darb (plural darbs)

"He Resolves Not to Smoke" (USA, 1915)
  1. (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.
  2. (Australia, slang) A cigarette.

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Particle

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

  1. to/for which/whom is
    an fear darb aithnid méthe man who knows me
  2. from which/whom is

Derived terms

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Irish copular forms
simple copular forms
affirmative negative interrogative negative
interrogative
present/future
main clause is an nach
relative clause direct nach
indirect ar, arbv
other subordinate clause gur, gurbv an nach
past/conditional
main clause ba, b’v níor, níorbhv ar, arbhv nár, nárbhv
relative clause direct ba, abv nár, nárbhv
indirect ar, arbhv
other subordinate clause gur, gurbhv ar, arbhv nár, nárbhv
present subjunctive
gura, gurabv nára, nárabv
compound copular forms
base word present/future past/conditional
cár, cárbv cár, cárbhv
cér, cérbv cér, cérbhv
mba, mb’v
de/do dar, darbv dar, darbhv
faoi faoinar, faoinarbv faoinar, faoinarbhv
i inar, inarbv inar, inarbhv
le lenar, lenarbv lenar, lenarbhv
más ba, b’v
mura mura, murabv murar, murarbhv
ó (preposition) ónar, ónarbv ónar, ónarbhv
ó (conjunction) ós ó ba, ó b’v
trí trínar, trínarbv trínar, trínarbhv

v Used before vowel sounds