Yarn

Noun

 * 1)  A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
 * 2)  Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
 * 3)  A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.

Verb

 * 1) To tell a story.

Verbs for Yarn

 * (tale) blast—; climax—; color—; debunk—; digress from—; embroider—; exaggerate—; explode—; fabricate—; magnify—; narrate—; recite—; recount—; relate—; retail—; spin—; stretch—; swap—s; terminate—; unfold—; varnish—; weave—; —delights; — distracts; —enthralls; —thrills.

Thesaurus
thread, trumped-up story, twine, twist, untruth, visit, visual joke, wheeze, white lie, whopper, wire, wow, account, anecdotage, anecdote, belly laugh, blague, blue story, braid, brail, cable, causerie, chat, chin, chronicle, cock-and-bull story, colloque, cord, dirty joke, dirty story, double entendre, epic, epos, ethnic joke, exaggeration, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, fun, funny story, gag, ghost story, good one, good story, half-truth, howler, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, laugh, legal fiction, lie, ligament, ligation, ligature, line, little white lie, mendacity, narration, narrative, panic, pious fiction, play, point, prevarication, prose, rap, rib tickler, riot, rope, saga, scream, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, slight stretching, sport, spun yarn, story, strand, string, tale, talk, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tendon, thong,

Etymology
From, from the gearn:; which is akin to the  garn:,  Garn:, and Greek χορδή:; Latin hernia:, and the Sanskrit undefined:.

Synonyms

 * story, tale

Derived terms

 * yarn-beam
 * yarn-spinner
 * yarnwindle
 * yarner

Related terms

 * spin a yarn

Noun

 * Armenian:
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 * Dutch:
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 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:


 * Polish:, włóczka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: пряжа
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: предиво, пређа
 * Roman: predivo, pređa
 * Spanish:, hilado
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:


 * Polish:


 * Finnish: tarina, juttu, sepustus
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ほら話
 * Polish:


 * Romanian: basm,
 * Russian: байка, небылица
 * Spanish:, historia

Verb

 * Russian: рассказывать байка

Anagrams

 * nary, n-ary
 * Ryan