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farden
n. (context UK obsolete Northern England English) (eye dialect of farthing English)
Usage examples of "farden".
Not one farden do you get out of me if you starve in the street--not one farden!
I dunnow whether I did right, sir, but I told un you would never take a farden less.
Here is a cottage nursery rhyme, genuinely silly:-- Right round my garden There I found a farden, Gave it to my mother To buy a little brother, Brother was so cross Sat him on a horse, Horse was so randy Gave him some brandy, Brandy was so strong Put him in the pond, Pond was so deep Put him in the cradle and rocked him off to sleep.
If ever I went for to ask five shillings of you, or five fardens, may the hands rot off at my wrists and the teeth drop out of my head.