pple. and ppl. a. Obs. exc. Sc. and north. dial. For forms see FIGHT v. and FOUGHTEN; also 8–9 forfoughen. [f. FOR- pref.1 + FOUGHTEN.] Wearied and worn-out with fighting.

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c. 1275.  Lay., 26189.

        On wis cniht com ride
to þis kinges ferde
þat was al for-fohte.

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c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 3686.

        Ȝe schuld now make ȝow merie · ȝour mene to glade,
þat feynt ar for-fouten · in feld & for-wounded.

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c. 1450.  Lonelich, Grail, xlv. 765.

            I was so forfowhte
That non lengere stonden I mowhte.

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1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, III. vi. We are forfoughten, & moche bloud haue we loste.

5

a. 1550.  [see FLAUGHTER sb.]

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a. 1775.  Hobie Noble, xxviii., in Child, Ballads, VII. (1890), 3/2.

        Fy on ye, women! why ca ye me man?
  For it ’s nae man that I ’m usd like;
I ’m but like a forfoughen hound,
  Has been fighting in a dirty syke.

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1787.  Burns, Lett. to W. Nicol, 1 June. As forjesket and forniaw’d as a forfoughten cock.

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1818.  Scott, Rob Roy, xxviii. I propose that this good little gentleman, that seems sair for-foughen, as I may say, in this tuilzie, shall send for a tass o’ brandy, and I ’ll pay for another, by way of archilowe, and then we ’ll birl our bawbees a’ round about, like brethren.

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  b.  transf. Wearied, over-fatigued.

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1786.  Harvest Rig, in Chambers, Pop. Poems Scotl. (1862), 50.

        They’re a’ right glad the kemp is done,
For they’re forfoughten ilka ane.

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c. 1817.  Hogg, The Shepherd’s Dog, in Tales & Sk. (1837), IV. 253. Both he and his master were alike sore forefoughten.

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1832–53.  Whistle-Binkie (Sc. Songs), Ser. I. 39.

        In case some drift-driven strangers come forfoughten to our bield,
An’ welcome, welcome they shall be to what the house can yield.

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