yonderly

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English

Adjective

yonderly (comparative more yonderly, superlative most yonderly)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) anxious; absent-minded; vacant.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Benjamin Brierley, Irkdale, or, the Odd House in the Hollow: a Lancashire Story .
      What's do wi' thee ; theaw's lookt o mornin as yonderly as if theaw'd lost th' guiders o' thy een ?