yonderly

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yonderly (comparative more yonderly, superlative most yonderly)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) anxious; absent-minded; vacant.
    • 1885, Ben Brierley, Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life. – Irkdale; or, the Odd House in the Hollow:
      "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 ?"