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单词 forbye
释义

forbye

English

Adverb

forbye (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of forby

Preposition

forbye

  1. Alternative form of forby
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
      She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.

Anagrams

  • foreby

Scots

Preposition

forbye

  1. besides, in addition to
    • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
      ‘they ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' sea-fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, grilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination [...].’

Adverb

forbye

  1. as well, in addition
    • 1992, Iain Banks, The Crow Road:
      'And mind them there's plenty of bread, and some chicken in the fridge, and cheese, and plenty of soup forbye, if you get hungry again.'
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