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old-farrant en · ADJ

Etymology

From old + farrant.

Meanings

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

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audfarandly