forby

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /fəˈbʌɪ/

Adjective

forby

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.

   He's a forbye man.

Adverb

forby

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Past; by; beyond.
   • 1899, Richard Garnett, Alois Leonhard Brandl, The universal anthology:

     To see the world and folk that went forby, […]

2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommonly; exceptionally.

   He was forby kind.

Preposition

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic, of time) Past; gone by; over.
3. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Near; beside; by, close to.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.

4. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) On one side; out of the way.
5. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.

   There was other six forby me.

6. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) With the exception of; not taking into account.

Synonyms

• (near) next to
• (besides) beyond, on top of; see also Thesaurus:in addition to
• (with the exception of;) barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except

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