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old-farrant

old-farrant

English

Alternative forms

  • old-farant

Adjective

old-farrant (comparative more old-farrant, superlative most old-farrant)

  1. (Britain dialects) Old or old-fashioned; (of children) precocious, already as shrewd as someone old.
    • 1866, Robert Williams Buchanan, Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, page 41:
      Whiles he came home : weary old-farrant face Pale from the midnight candle;
    • 1894, Punch, volume 107, page 267:
      "Ye'd best stand asoide; Ride your old-farrant face behind yon ellum, Hear all, and see your Parish judge the nobs!"
    • 1911, The Expository Times, volume 22, page 210:
      They sought and searched as for hid treasure; and she was precious in many hearts, the playful little chatterbox with her old-farrant ways, and her bonnie smile!
    • 1913, James Matthew Barrie, Tommy and Grizel, page 298:
      [...] and stately clocks made in the town a hundred years ago, and quaint old-farrant lamps and cogeys and sand-glasses that apologized [...]

Derived terms

  • audfarandly