Word of the Day: YONDERLY


ETYMOLOGY
from yonder (adv., adj., pron., & n.) + -ly


EXAMPLE
“…Poor lass, hoo were kinder becose aw were quare;
“Come, Jamie, an’ sattle thisel in a cheer;
Thae’s looked very yonderly mony a day;
It’s grievin’ to see heaw thae’rt wearin’ away,
            An’ trailin’ abeawt,
            Like a hen at’s i’th meawt;
    Do, pritho, poo up to thi tay!
…”

From: Lancashire Songs
By Edwin Waugh, 1863
Jamie’s Frolic

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