forrarder
English
Etymology
Dialectal form of forwarder.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɒɹədə/
Adjective
forrarder (not comparable)
- (chiefly humorous) Further forward; more advanced.
- 1930, Dorothy L Sayers, Strong Poison:
- Bright back-chat cheers the patient, but gets us no forrarder.
- 1931, Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery:
- Good morning, Inspector. Any forrarder? Yes, sir. I think we are a little forrarder.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 190:
- They had him back to the Greffe; and there he was, after years of studying and going to college, no forrarder than when he left school.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 168:
- ‘I mean we've heard all the things it isn't for, and we've heard it's not being spent. But we're no forrarder, are we, bless us? We don't seem to know anything.’
- 1984, Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World:
- I was ordered to take in six months' stores yesterday and I have been hurrying to and fro among these slow sly circumspect creatures ever since, without getting any forrarder at all [...].
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