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"4": "beyond, past"
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"text": "He's a forbye man."
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"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with archaic senses",
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"Northern England English",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Scottish English"
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"ref": "1899, Richard Garnett, Alois Leonhard Brandl, The universal anthology",
"text": "To see the world and folk that went forby, […]",
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"UK",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
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"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"Northern England English",
"Scottish English"
],
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{
"text": "He was forby kind."
}
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[
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],
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"Scotland",
"UK",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
}
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"tags": [
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"English terms derived from Middle Low German",
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"English terms inherited from Middle English",
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],
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"Scotland",
"UK",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
},
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"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"Northern England English",
"Scottish English"
],
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],
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],
[
"over",
"over"
]
],
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"tags": [
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"Scotland",
"UK",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"Northern England English",
"Scottish English"
],
"glosses": [
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],
"links": [
[
"Near",
"near"
],
[
"beside",
"beside"
],
[
"by",
"by"
],
[
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]
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"(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Near; beside; by, close to."
],
"tags": [
"Northern-England",
"Scotland",
"UK",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"Northern England English",
"Scottish English"
],
"glosses": [
"On one side; out of the way."
],
"links": [
[
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"out of the way"
]
],
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],
"tags": [
"Northern-England",
"Scotland",
"UK",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"Northern England English",
"Scottish English"
],
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{
"text": "There was other six forby me."
}
],
"glosses": [
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],
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[
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"besides"
],
[
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"in addition to"
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[
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],
[
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],
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],
"tags": [
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"Scotland",
"UK",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"Northern England English",
"Scottish English"
],
"glosses": [
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],
"links": [
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"with the exception of"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
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],
"tags": [
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"Scotland",
"UK",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
}
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"word": "next to"
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"word": "beyond"
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{
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{
"word": "in addition to"
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"word": "barring"
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{
"word": "except for"
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{
"word": "save for"
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{
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{
"word": "foreby [15th–16th c.]"
},
{
"word": "forbye"
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