Furst

adj, adv, name

adj, adv, name ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Eye dialect spelling of first. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "They wur not paid for weet days at th' furst; an' they geet it into their yeds at Shorrock were to blame."

Adverb
  1. 1
    Eye dialect spelling of first. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "I took a v'y'ge to Australia furst, just to put her out o' my mind a bit, an' I never seed her since."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Example

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"They wur not paid for weet days at th' furst; an' they geet it into their yeds at Shorrock were to blame."

Etymology

From the German surname, from Fürst (“the first”).

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