Definition of "forby"

forby

/fəˈbʌɪ/

adjective
comparative more forby, superlative most forby
1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.
adverb
comparative more forby, superlative most forby
1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Past; by; beyond.
  Quotations
  To see the world and folk that went forby, […]
  1899, Richard Garnett, Alois Leonhard Brandl, The universal anthology
2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommonly; exceptionally.
preposition
1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic, of time) Past; gone by; over.
3. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Near; beside; by, close to.
  Quotations
  Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
4. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) On one side; out of the way.
5. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.
  Quotations
  "Put on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, forby your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep the breath of life in me."
  1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 173
6. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) With the exception of; not taking into account.

Definition of "forby"

forby

adjective

adverb

Quotations

preposition

Quotations

Quotations