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yonderly

yonderly adjective: anxious; absent-minded; vacant.

Adjective

yonderly (comparative more yonderly, superlative most yonderly)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) anxious; absent-minded; vacant.
    • Yonderly, vacant; besides himself. 'He looks yonderly', i.e. lost, or poorly.1883, Thomas Lees, A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, page 152
    • "Well then, what's do wi' thee ; for thou's lookt o mornin as yonderly as if thou'd lost th' guiders o' thy een ?"1885, Ben Brierley, Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life. – Irkdale; or, the Odd House in the Hollow

Forms of yonderly

comparativemore yonderly
superlativemost yonderly

Questions about yonderly

What does yonderly mean?
Yonderly means anxious; absent-minded; vacant.
What part of speech is yonderly?
Yonderly is an adjective.

Words near yonderly in the dictionary

  1. Yonces
  2. yoncopin
  3. yoncopins
  4. yond
  5. yonder
  6. yonderly
  7. yondermost
  8. yonderness
  9. yonders
  10. Yoneda
  11. Yoneda embedding

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