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fornenst
[ fer-nenst ]
preposition
- next to; near to:
They walked fornenst one another down the sidewalk.
- against; facing; opposite.
fornenst
/ ɔːˈɛԲ /
preposition
- dialect.situated against or facing towards
Word History and Origins
Origin of fornenst1
Example Sentences
“It’s now you call me loud enough,” siz I, “ye wouldn’t shout that way when ye saw me rowlin’ like a tub in a mill-race the other day fornenst your faces.”
Ye never heared the like, nor what’s more, Andy Wilson’s mare, she never heared the like, and she just made the wan lep and landed in the strame fornenst William; then James he tuk a howlt o’ William, and ‘Bap yersel’, says he; and with that he coped him off his gran’ white horse, and he drooked him in the watter.
With that he joined to go forrard, and James he should have come forrard fornenst him, but 241 Andy’s mare, she just planted the fore-feet o’ her and stud there the same as she was growed in the ground.
Then thur’s the knots to kum off o’ thet, though fornenst ’em thur’s bridles.
I will show that are proposition is unconstitutionable, inlegal, and fornenst the compact.
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