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English
Etymology
From farrand + -ly.
Adjective
farantly (comparative more farantly, superlative most farantly)
- (obsolete, dialect, Northern England) Good-looking; respectable.
1876, Ebenezer Elliott, “The Gipsy (XIV)”, in Edwin Elliott, editor, The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, volume 2, page 329:I wish her no harm, with her blushes of brass;
But she may have six twins in three years,
And corrupt every farantly neighbour she has,
Setting them and their wives by the ears.
1893, Benjamin Brierley, “Johnny an' Peggy”, in Spring Blossoms and Autumn Leaves, page 79:[in strong Lancashire-dialect pronunciation spelling]
“‘An' if hoo doesno' come for that,
There's lots on Bowman's Lea
As farrantly an' good as hoo,
Ut would be preawd o' thee.”
1894, Samuel Laycock, “Mi Gronny”, in Warblin's Fro' an Owd Songster:[in strong Lancashire-dialect pronunciation spelling]
Aw wur theer t' other neet, an' aw thowt to misel'
God bless her! hoo's farantly lookin'!- I was there the other night, and I thought to myself,
God bless her! She's farantly looking.
Adverb
farantly (comparative more farantly, superlative most farantly)
- (obsolete) In a respectable manner.
1821, N.A., The Life of a Boy:I remember hearing my mother say that her cousin, John Fell, married a young body fro' Egremont; and she had no way o' her ain, and never got into theirs, so there was nothing done farantly.
1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, page 38:The lancinations maugre all my epulotic appliances sphacelated — interrosseal and cervical inturgescence induced angina, followed by lethality; I contumulated him farantly in a litten .
1924, G. B. Stuart, “The Deacon's Window”, in The English Review, volume 39, page 717:But the Bishop, that courteous man of God, saluted the young man, right farantly […]