narm.
A scene in a piece of media that is portrayed as serious but unintentionally seen as funny.
Meaning & usage
A scene in a piece of media that is portrayed as serious but unintentionally seen as funny.
Where this word comes from
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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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.