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ferninst

ferninst preposition: against.

Preposition

ferninst

  1. (US, dialectal) Against.
    • Those pink-satin evening slippers simply lose all their display value when you stick those red-kid bed-slippers right up ferninst them that way.1917, Sinclair Lewis, The Innocents
    • "It's right ferninst where yer afther stan'in, up the stairs on the corner of Granefield Coort--over there, bedad."1893, Edward Eggleston, Duffels

Questions about ferninst

What does ferninst mean?
Ferninst means against.
What part of speech is ferninst?
Ferninst is a preposition.

Words near ferninst in the dictionary

  1. Fernihough
  2. Fernihoughs
  3. Fernihurst
  4. fernily
  5. ferning
  6. ferninst
  7. fernland
  8. fernlands
  9. fernleaf lavender
  10. Fernleigh
  11. fernless

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