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old-farrand

old-farrand is the alternative form of old-farrant.

Meaning of old-farrant

Adjective

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

  1. (UK, dialectal) Old or old-fashioned; (of children) precocious, already as shrewd as someone old.
    • Whiles he came home: weary old-farrant face Pale from the midnight candle;1866, Robert Williams Buchanan, Idyls and Legends of Inverburn, page 41

Forms of old-farrand

comparativemore old-farrand
superlativemost old-farrand

Questions about old-farrand

What is old-farrand the alternative form of?
Old-farrand is the alternative form of old-farrant.

Words near old-farrand in the dictionary

  1. old-boyism
  2. old-clothesman
  3. old-clothesmen
  4. old-earth creationism
  5. old-fangled
  6. old-farrand
  7. old-farrant
  8. old-fashion
  9. old-fashioned
  10. old-fashioned look
  11. old-fashioned looks

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