foorth
English
Adjective
foorth (not comparable)
- Eye dialect spelling of fourth.
- 1899, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War:
- This, gintlemen iv th' foorth precin't,' he says, 'is Thomas Francis Dorgan, a man who, if ilicted,' he says, 'victhry'll perch,' he says, 'upon our banners,' he says; 'an',' he says, 'th' naytional honor will be maintained,' he says, 'in th' county boord,' he says.
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Adverb
foorth (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of forth
- 1592, R. G., The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592):
- I see Coosen you knowe mee not, and I doe not greatlie blame you, it is so long since you came foorth of the Countrey, but I am such a ones sonne, naming her Uncle right, and his sonnes name, which she very well remembred, but had not seene him in eleven yeares.
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Middle English
Usage notes
- Attested only in the fourteenth century.
References
- “foorth” listed as a fourteenth- of “ford, n.¹”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
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