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forrad

forrad is the alternative spelling of forrard.

Meaning of forrard

Adverb

forrard (not comparable)

  1. (dialectal) Forward.
    • Here and there an adventurous genius coins a phrase for the benefit of posterity,--as we once heard a mate order a couple of men to "go forrard and trim the ship's whiskers," to the utter bewilderment of his captain, who, in thirty years' following of the sea, had never heard the martingale chains...1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858

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Noun

forrad (plural forrads)

  1. (representing dialect or variant pronunciation) Forehead.

Forms of forrad

pluralforrads

Questions about forrad

What does forrad mean?
Forrad means forehead.
What is forrad the alternative spelling of?
Forrad is the alternative spelling of forrard.
What part of speech is forrad?
Forrad is a noun.
What is the plural of forrad?
The plural of forrad is forrads.

Words near forrad in the dictionary

  1. Forquer
  2. Forquers
  3. Forquilha
  4. Forrabury
  5. Forrabury and Minster
  6. forrad
  7. forrader
  8. forrads
  9. forraign
  10. forraine
  11. forrard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forrad (page history and authors); forrard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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