old-farrant

English

Alternative forms

• old-farrand, old-farant

Etymology

From old +‎ farrant.

Adjective

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

1. (UK dialect) 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