forrarder

English

Etymology

Dialectal form of forwarder.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒɹədə/

Adjective

forrarder (not comparable)

1. (chiefly humorous) Further forward; more advanced.
   • 1930, Dorothy L Sayers, Strong Poison:

     Bright back-chat cheers the patient, but gets us no forrarder.

   • 1931, Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery:

     Good morning, Inspector. Any forrarder? Yes, sir. I think we are a little forrarder.

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 190:

     They had him back to the Greffe; and there he was, after years of studying and going to college, no forrarder than when he left school.

   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 168:

     ‘I mean we've heard all the things it isn't for, and we've heard it's not being spent. But we're no forrarder, are we, bless us? We don't seem to know anything.’

   • 1984, Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World:

     I was ordered to take in six months' stores yesterday and I have been hurrying to and fro among these slow sly circumspect creatures ever since, without getting any forrarder at all [...].