Meaning of old-farrant | Babel Free

Definitions

Old or old-fashioned; (of children) precocious, already as shrewd as someone old.

UK, dialectal

Examples

“Whiles he came home: weary old-farrant face Pale from the midnight candle;”

“"Ye'd best stand asoide; Ride your old-farrant face behind yon ellum, Hear all, and see your Parish judge the nobs!"”

“They sought and searched as for hid treasure; and she was precious in many hearts, the playful little chatterbox with her old-farrant ways, and her bonnie smile!”

“[…] and stately clocks made in the town a hundred years ago, and quaint old-farrant lamps and cogeys and sand-glasses that apologized […]”

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