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comparative fremder or more fremd, superlative fremdest or most fremd
(rare, chiefly dialectal) Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar. quotations
Pits it i' da fremd-man's hert.
1892, Haldane Burgess, Rasmie's Büddie, section 43
(rare, chiefly dialectal) Not kin, unrelated; foreign. quotations
[...] seeing that they were fremd in heart, if they were kin in blood.
1851, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), Passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside
The doctor went up to the bed, and said, firmly, " Miss Garnock, you must not keep Mr. Yonge any longer." "Who'll he be that comes meddling between me and my Tar?" shrieked the patient. "Mither, bid yon fremd body gang his ways. I'll no be fashed wi' him the day."
1868, Legh Knight, Tonic Bitters: A Novel, page 181
[...] and if I'm to be no more hereafter to them that belong to me, than to legions of strange angels, or a whole nation of fremd folk!
1873, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
There's room for everybody in the world, I suppose, and something for everybody to do, and it behoves them that have few kin to make the more friends of fremd folk.
1873, Heathergate, Heathergate, page 66
Thus, a person living with a family to whom he is not related is termed "a fremd body." If it were asked, "Is he akin to you?" the answer would be, "Nawe, he's fremd," i.e. "he's one of us, but not a relation."
1875, John Howard Nodal, George Milner, A glossary of the Lancashire dialect
(obsolete) Wild; untamed.
plural fremds
(rare or dialectal) A stranger; someone who is not a relative; a guest.
(archaic or obsolete) An enmity.