faird

Scots

FWOTD – 16 April 2015

Etymology

See the etymology at ferd.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fɛərd]

Noun

faird (plural fairds)

  1. Force of movement, impetus, rush, onset.[1][2]
    • 1681, Samuel Colvil, Mock Poem; or, Whiggs’ Supplication
      None gained by those bloody fairds / But two three Beggers who turn’d Lairds.

References

  1. ↑ “faird” in Dictionary of the Scots Language, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh
  2. ↑ “faird” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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