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Meaning of ferninst | Babel Free

Preposition CEFR C2

Definitions

Against.

US, dialectal

Examples

“Those pink-satin evening slippers simply lose all their display value when you stick those red-kid bed-slippers right up ferninst them that way.”
“"It's right ferninst where yer afther stan'in, up the stairs on the corner of Granefield Coort--over there, bedad."”
“But Fate, as he expressed it in the vernacular, was "ferninst him."”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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