farden
See also: färden
English
Noun
farden (plural fardens)
- (Britain, obsolete, Northern England) Eye dialect spelling of farthing.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 9:
- Sir Pitt did not care, as he said, a brass fardenfor any one of them.
- 1915, John Hartley, Yorksher Puddin':
- 'If tha weant, tha weant,' he sed, soa that settles it, but awd rayther let th' bums tak away nearly ivvery stick aght o'th' haase nor awd take a farden less nor seven shillin'; that's th' lowest aw ivver will tak, an if tha doesn't buy'em at that price tha'll rue, for tha'll niver have sich a chonce ageean.'
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 9:
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