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narm

Pronunciation: /ˈnɑː(ɹ)m/

The English word “narm” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A scene in a piece of media that is portrayed as serious but unintentionally seen as funny.

Etymology

Coined by TV Tropes in 2007, referring to a scene in Six Feet Under's final season where main protagonist Nate Fisher complains about his arm being numb while suffering a brain embolism and repeats the words "numb arm", quickly slurring them into the single syllable "narm".

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