Etymology

narm

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Today it means: A scene in a piece of media that is portrayed as serious but unintentionally seen as funny. Full definition →

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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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