10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORFOCHEN»
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forfochen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
forfochen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Essential Scots Dictionary: Scots-English, English-Scots
Forfar bridle see bridle. forfauchelt adj worn out, exhausted. forfeuchin see
forfochen. forfochen, forfochten, forfeuchin SE adj exhausted: 'sair forfochen'.
forgalther v 1 assemble, gather together, congregate. 2 meet, fall in with, often by
chance.
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 2004
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Desultory notes on Jamieson's Scottish dictionary
James B. Montogomerie- Fleming. 50 Forfochen — Frem FORFOCHEN is only to
be found, in a way, under Forfoucht, ii. 279. FOUMART, "a pole-cat," is to be
found under Fowmarte, ii. 296, though the former is the almost universal spelling.
James B. Montogomerie- Fleming, 1899
3
Concise English-Scots Dictionary
... kned, staw SE. tired forfochen, lowsed, fornyawed, fauchelt, jaffelt sw, taigelt.
very tired sir also exhausted; tike- tired, stane-tired S, fair forfochen. tired-looking
disjaskit, oorit. tiredness tire. tiresome see also annoying; staw- some, seeckrif(e).
Iseabail Macleod, Pauline Cairns, 1999
4
Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry
Like a thunder-plump on the sunlicht, Or the slounge o' daith on my dreams, Or
as to a fair forfochen man A breedin' wife's beddiness seems, Saragossa Sea, St
Vitus' Dance, A cafard in a brain's despite, Or lunacy that thinks a' else Is loony ...
Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Riach, Michael Grieve, 2006
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THE SCOTS MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 1982
Fair. Forfochen. By William J. Rae THE HERB PEOPLE MARJORIE WILSON Mrs
Claire Orr late of. although poisoning women seems an odd way to carry on a
feud. It is even possible that after that meeting at Falkland, Janet Kennedy herself
...
6
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
(7) Traditional, sometimes recondite and literary, Scots words occasionally
introduced into standard English contexts in the media, and known to minorities:
bogle a phantom, dominie a schoolmaster, eident diligent, forfochen exhausted,
furth ...
Thomas Burns McArthur, Roshan McArthur, 2005
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The poetic remains of some of the Scotish Kings ...
Forfochen is used by G. Douglas; and is still used in the vulgar language. This
word is perhaps composed of for and fochten ; as in Chaucer we see fordronken,
over drunk, for-grawen, for over-grown, for-shronke, for shrunk up; and Spenser ...
8
Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People
'Deed, it 's no like that Sandy Jamieson will get a guid price the morn for sic sair
forfochen beasts." Then with firmly gripped staff" he marched stoutly into the tide
till it ran hissing below his armpits. " I could dae 't alane," he cried, " but no wi' a ...
9
The Roxburghshire Word-Book
G. Also forfoochen (s), forfochen (N, s). Exhausted; thoroughly tired or wearied. [
From med. E. forfoughten, etc., wearied with fighting] IFORGETAL, a. N, W.
Forgetful. [A.S. forgyttol] IFORHOW, v. s. tr. Of birds: To forsake (a nest or young). [
med.
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Modren Scots Grammar: Wirkin Wi Wirds
Mony Scots prefixes are shared wi Inglis (sic as dis-, un-, in, be-, en-) but some
are only fund, or are mair commonly fund, in Scots: a- (ablow, abune, afore, ahint)
for— (forfochen, forjeskit, forfauchelt). This is an intensifyin prefix meanin 'very'.
