fairdy

Scots

Etymology

From faird (force, impetus) + -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fɛərdi]

Adjective

fairdy (comparative mair fairdy, superlative maist fairdy)

1. swift, quick, fast, teet.

References

• “fairdy”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 30 January 2017, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.