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 […]”

CEFR level