farden

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See also: färden

English

Noun

farden (plural fardens)

  1. (UK, obsolete, Northern England, Jamaica) Pronunciation spelling of farthing.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:
      Sir Pitt did not care, as he said, a brass fardenfor any one of them.
    • 1872, T.P. Wilson, Frank Oldfield:
      The young gent's been and popped all his things for the play and the drink; and I haven't myself so much as a brass farden to get a mouthful o' meat with."
    • 1904, E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet:
      Nicked the bloomin' lot 'e did--and me with not a farden to take 'ome to my brother and his missus.'
    • 1908, James Blyth, Edward FitzGerald and "Posh":
      He was off with the letters and all, and never gave me a farden for what he had or what he l'arnt off o' me.
    • 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.'

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Verb

farden

  1. inflection of fardar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative