stern

Meaning

1. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
2. Grim and forbidding in appearance.

tooshie

hind end

after part

of a harsh temper

serious look

aurtere

grim austere

downward-sloping

beardown

caboose

nervous

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɜːn/

From Middle English stern, sterne, sturne, from Old English styrne (“stern, grave, strict, austere, hard, severe, cruel”), from Proto-Germanic *sturnijaz (“angry, astonished, shocked”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“rigid, stiff”). Cognate with Scots stern (“bold, courageous, fierce, resolute”), Old High German stornēn (“to be astonished”), Dutch stuurs (“glum, austere”), Swedish stursk (“insolent”).

Cognate with Dutch

stuurs

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