Associations to the word «Durkin»

Wiktionary

DURKIN, verb. To focus on an idea or object to the exclusion of everything else
DURKIN, verb. To have one's responses go entirely unnoticed.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky