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old-farrant

old-farrant adjective: old or old-fashioned; (of children) precocious, already as shrewd as someone old.

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
    • "Ye'd best stand asoide; Ride your old-farrant face behind yon ellum, Hear all, and see your Parish judge the nobs!"1894, Punch, volume 107, page 267

Examples of old-farrant in a sentence

  • 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!1911, The Expository Times, volume 22, page 210:
  • […] and stately clocks made in the town a hundred years ago, and quaint old-farrant lamps and cogeys and sand-glasses that apologized […]1913, James Matthew Barrie, Tommy and Grizel, page 298:

Forms of old-farrant

comparativemore old-farrant
superlativemost old-farrant
alternative formold-farrand
alternative formold-farant

Origin of old-farrant

From old + farrant.

Words formed from old-farrant

  • audfarandly

Questions about old-farrant

What does old-farrant mean?
Old-farrant means old or old-fashioned; (of children) precocious, already as shrewd as someone old.
How do you use old-farrant in a sentence?
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!
What part of speech is old-farrant?
Old-farrant is an adjective.

Words near old-farrant in the dictionary

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

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