# narm

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈnɑː(ɹ)m/

## Definitions
1. A television or movie scene that is portrayed as serious but unintentionally seen as funny.

## Etymology
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".

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/narm