Meaning & use
Curn
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A small quantity or grain of something, especially in Scottish and northern English dialect.
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She added just a curn of salt to the porridge.
"There's not a curn of truth in that story," the old farmer scoffed.
A note on using this word
A dialect word still heard in Scotland and parts of northern England, related to 'corn' in its old sense of a single grain or kernel.
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grainpinch
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