farlie
English
Etymology
From Old English ferlish (“wonder, as adj., strange, sudden, fearful”). See fear.
Noun
farlie (plural farlies)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder.
- Michael Drayton
- (Whilst thus himself to please, the mighty Mountain tells
- Such farlies of his Cluyd, and of his wondrous Wells)
- Michael Drayton
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for farlie in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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