a. north. dial. Also 8–9 far-, farrently. [f. FARRANT a. + -LY1.]
1. Of a person. a. Comely, handsome, good-looking. b. Genteel, respectable.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, 17. Farantly; handsom.
1790. Mrs. Wheeler, Westmld. Dial. (1821), 20. Whya hang thee, thau er farrantly enuff tae leak at.
1794. Mrs. Darwall, Poems on Several Occasions, I. 95.
| As to Bridget, she’s married;—and troth ’twas high time, | |
| For five farently youths for her wasted their prime. |
1867. Cornh. Mag., XV., June, 731. Then thee wast but a fool, my lad, as to think thee feyther ’ud be so took up wi’ a farrantly wench as a’ that.
2. Of a thing: Becoming, fit, proper.
c. 1750. J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), Wks., 72. There’s none sitch farrantly tawk abeawt’r.
1839. Cumbrld. & Westm. Dial., 13. Tae spin tow for bord claiths en sheets … wod hev been mitch mair farently then ritin books.
1855. E. Waugh, in Harland’s Lanc. Lyrics, 136. A farrantly bargain he’d be.
