forby
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- + by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“past”), Low German vörbi, German vorbei (“gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
forby (comparative more forby, superlative most forby)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.
- He's a forbye man.
Adverb edit
forby (comparative more forby, superlative most forby)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Past; by; beyond.
- 1899, Richard Garnett, Alois Leonhard Brandl, The universal anthology:
- To see the world and folk that went forby, […]
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommonly; exceptionally.
- He was forby kind.
Preposition edit
forby
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic, of time) Past; gone by; over.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Near; beside; by, close to.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) On one side; out of the way.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.
- There was other six forby me.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 173:
- "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."
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) With the exception of; not taking into account.
Synonyms edit
- (near): next to
- (besides): beyond, on top of; see also Thesaurus:in addition to
- (with the exception of;): barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse fyrirbjóða.
Verb edit
forby (imperative forby, present tense forbyr, passive forbys, simple past forbød or forbøy or forbydde, past participle forbudt or forbydd)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “forby” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse fyrirbjóða.
Verb edit
forby (present tense forbyr, past tense forbaud or forbydde, past participle forbode or forbydd or forbydt, passive infinitive forbyast, present participle forbyande, imperative forby)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “forby” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Scots edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle English forby, forbi.
Adverb edit
forby
Preposition edit
forby
References edit
- “forby, adv., prep.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “forby, prep., adv., adj., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
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