FORLORN
ADJECTIVES
► BESTEAD circumstanced, situated, generally in an evil sense; hence, destitute, forlorn; overcome, oppressed → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DISJASKED dejected, downcast, forlorn → 1836 Sc.
► LIKE A BANDICOOT ON A BURNT RIDGE lonely and forlorn → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► LIKE A DUCK IN A THUNDER-STORM having a forlorn and hopeless appearance → 1823
► LIKE A DUCK IN THUNDER having a forlorn and hopeless appearance → 1786
► LIKE A DYING DUCK IN A THUNDERSTORM cast down in spirit; very down in the mouth; having a forlorn and hopeless expression; depressed, dejected → 1874
► LIKE A SHAG ON A ROCK forlorn, lonely → 1929 Aust. colloq.
► WAFF of persons and places: forlorn, melancholy; solitary, said of one who is in a strange place where he has not a single acquaintance → 1724 Sc.
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