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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
larn .
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Examples
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I'd assume that goes without saying, except that I've been "larned" to know better.
The Gold Liquid Café. Ann Althouse 2008
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It was not till after a regular battle royal that that young gentleman could be brought to submit to be "larned" by any one but his own special
My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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If she didn't have her own personal agenda to fill, (re: POTUS) she would have kicked ol 'Billy boy back to AR whar he larned thet stuff!
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August 9, 2008 at 11:55 am thxvm fur da linkie jinge…much infurmashun and vawy instrestin peruzings. i larned sumthin and de day is not ovr.
grampa kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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You told my larned friend rather previously, a moment since, about this mound or barrow.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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I larned myself to reed when I was 4 or 5 with Dr Seuss.
Firedoglake » Patrick Kennedy, Rush Limbaugh and the Right Wing Cop-Out 2006
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Well, he was at the top afore you could cry 'trapstick,' and it wasn't long till I was at the top too, and there we found a gate opening into the hill, and a power of lords and ladies waiting to resave Mahoon, who I larned was their king, and who had been away from his kingdom for twenty years, by rason of his being shut up in the box by some great fairy-man.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various
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I larned 'em thet jest so soon as the 'talked, 'cause thar's no tellin' how quick the 'moight be tooken' way.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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He's got hold, sumhow, uv my little gal's book o 'pieces, an' larned a dozen on
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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When an old village dame afterwards assured me that "she didn't know I was that larned," I felt -- momentarily -- rather like a wolf in SHEEPSHANKS 'clothes.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 Various
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