forby

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.

   He's a forbye man.

2. adverb Past; by; beyond.
3. adverb Uncommonly; exceptionally.

   He was forby kind.

4. preposition Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
5. preposition Past; gone by; over.
6. preposition Near; beside; by, close to.
7. preposition On one side; out of the way.
8. preposition Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.

   There was other six forby me.

Similar words

extraforaneous abnormous forraine forren strange foreign forane straung utter rare

Often followed by

the that sutherland was being and a all my

Word family

forbye