10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORNENST»
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From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of ...
1880 Patterson Antrim/Down Glossary 40 fornenst = opposite to, in exchange for.
1891 Simmons Armagh Words and Phrases 8 foment, fornenst = opposite to, in
front of. 1895 MacManus Leadin Road 147 I had a corn on my feet fornense ivery
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A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English
Meath). formad /'faramad/ n., grudge, envy (SOM, Kerry) < Ir. 'He's had a formad
against him for years for marrying the sister.' foment /far'nent/ also forenent,
fornenst. forenenst. etc. adv., prep., to, facing; in front of (Omurethi, Kildare) < E
dial.
Terence Patrick Dolan, 2006
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Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art
touchin' him up with a big word, just to show him, as he was goin to make a
doctor of me, 1 had some larnin.' " ' Well,' said he, ' if you want to diskiver me, just
look at the prasha-buie ripht fornenst you, and you'll see me sitting on the top ...
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Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon
“'I'm convanient,' said he, and began dealing out as if there was a partner
fornenst him. “When my father used to get this far in the story, he became very
confused. He says, that once or twice he mistook the liquor, and took a pull at the
bottle of ...
Charles James Lever, 1848
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Charles O'Malley: The Irish Dragon
Fm convanient,' said he, and began dealing out as if there was a partner fornenst
him. " When my father used to get this far in the story, he became very confused.
He says, that once or twice he mistook the liquor, and took a pull at the bottle of ...
Charles James Lever, 1841
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A Dictionary of North East Dialect
forky-tail see earwig fornenst in front of, opposite and facing "Borders or Frontiery
(s)... of England foreanenst Scotland" Raine MS 1542; "fore- anent, fore-anens -
over against, opposite to, in front of" Atkinson Cleve 1868; 'right in front' Heslop ...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Well,' said he, ' if you want to diskiver me, just look at the prasha-buie right
fornenst you, and you'll see me sitting on the top blossom of it.' " That I may never
have a noggin of buttermilk or a salt herrin' with my praties, but there he was, sure
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Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith, 1836
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A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Cumberland: Supplement
Eb'm, G, "a bad eb'm." — one of bad character or habits. Eb'm endways, G,
endwise, continuous, without interruption. " Aa mended eb'm endways." Eb'm
fornenst, Eb'm anenst, G, directly opposite. "Eb'm fornenst an oald smiddy." End
nor side ...
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Sam Henry's Songs of the People
As we were walking she kept on talking Until her cottage came in view , She
asked me in to meet her father And, to please him, play 'The Foggy Dew.' She sat
me down beside the hearthstone Fornenst her father, who was six foot tall, And ...
Gale Huntington, Lani Herrmann, 2010
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Joyce's Waking Women: An Introduction to Finnegans Wake
sions of the continuing pattern of the man pressing on her. The first is a peaceful
vegetable love in which he is a tree, while the second is aggressively animalistic:
One time you'd stand fornenst me, fairly laughing, in your bark and tan billows of
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4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORNENST»
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From plitter to drabbletail: the words we love
... the words I'm saddest to lose from the tip of my tongue are thrawn (stubborn), thole (bear, put up with), fornenst (opposite), lock (some), cowp ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Ulster-Scots Hub the culmination of 20 years' work
It also helped me to appreciate why, as a child at school, I was "corrected" by a teacher when I used the word fornenst, even though the teacher ... «Belfast Telegraph, Dec 14»
An Irish Borgen?
BTW, did anyone else hear Katrine tell Casper she wasn't talking whilst there was a stranger 'fornenst' the door? http://ansionnachfionn.com/ ... «Slugger O'Toole, Feb 13»
More than words: A guide to Scottish dialect
... Lolling around doing nothing; Peerie – small; Tane fornenst da tidder – one against the other; Soothmouther – anyone not from Shetland. «Scotsman, Oct 12»
