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fornenst

or ڴǰ·ԱԳ

[ fer-nenst ]

preposition

Midland U.S. and British Dialect.
  1. next to; near to:

    They walked fornenst one another down the sidewalk.

  2. against; facing; opposite.


fornenst

/ ɔːˈɛԲ /

preposition

  1. dialect.
    situated against or facing towards
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fornenst1

from Scottish, from fore 1+ anenst a variant of archaic anent
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Example Sentences

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“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.”

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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.

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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.

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Then thur’s the knots to kum off o’ thet, though fornenst ’em thur’s bridles.

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I will show that are proposition is unconstitutionable, inlegal, and fornenst the compact.

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