farlie

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ferlish (“wonder, as adj., strange, sudden, fearful”). See fear.

Noun

farlie (plural farlies)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder.
   • Michael Drayton

     (Whilst thus himself to please, the mighty Mountain tells

     Such farlies of his Cluyd, and of his wondrous Wells)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “farlie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• A-lifer, failer, ferial, fraile