farantly

English

Etymology

From farrand +‎ -ly.

Adjective

farantly (comparative more farantly, superlative most farantly)

1. (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)

1. (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 […]