ACvol3
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Keyarney
I kid you not I worked with this woman who grew up in Kentucky and she said the word Keyarney (sp?) was an actual word. I think it relates somehow to a bad odor. She told me it means something is keyarney or smells keyarney.
Anyone else ever heard of this?
I think kyarny is a southern colloquialism for something generally nasty or filthy, not sure which particular regional dialects it belongs to. Kyarn is a dialectical corruption of the word carrion, so kyarny as your friend uses it probably stems from something that smells like decomp.
