forby
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- + by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“past”), Low German vörbi, German vorbei (“gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
forby (comparative more forby, superlative most forby)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.
- He's a forbye man.
Adverb[edit]
forby (comparative more forby, superlative most forby)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Past; by; beyond.
- 1899, Richard Garnett, Alois Leonhard Brandl, The universal anthology:
- To see the world and folk that went forby, […]
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommonly; exceptionally.
- He was forby kind.
Preposition[edit]
forby
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic, of time) Past; gone by; over.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Near; beside; by, close to.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) On one side; out of the way.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.
- There was other six forby me.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 173:
- "Put on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, forby your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep the breath of life in me."
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) With the exception of; not taking into account.
Synonyms[edit]
- (near): next to
- (besides): beyond, on top of; see also Thesaurus:in addition to
- (with the exception of;): barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse fyrirbjóða.
Verb[edit]
forby (imperative forby, present tense forbyr, passive forbys, simple past forbød or forbøy or forbydde, past participle forbudt or forbydd)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “forby” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse fyrirbjóða.
Verb[edit]
forby (present tense forbyr, past tense forbaud or forbydde, past participle forbode or forbydd or forbydt, passive infinitive forbyast, present participle forbyande, imperative forby)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “forby” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle English forby, forbi.
Adverb[edit]
forby
Preposition[edit]
forby
References[edit]
- “forby, adv., prep.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “forby, prep., adv., adj., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
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