fornenst

Or for·nent

[fer-nenst]

preposition

Midland U.S. and British Dialect.

1. next to; near to.

   They walked fornenst one another down the sidewalk.

2. against; facing; opposite.

fornenst

/ fɔːˈnɛnst /

preposition

1. dialect,  situated against or facing towards

Word History and Origins

Origin of fornenst¹

from Scottish, from _fore ¹ + anenst a variant of archaic _anent

Example Sentences

“It’s now you call me loud enough,” siz I, “ye wouldn’t shout that way when ye saw me rowlin’ like a tub in a mill-race the other day fornenst your faces.”

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Ye never heared the like, nor what’s more, Andy Wilson’s mare, she never heared the like, and she just made the wan lep and landed in the strame fornenst William; then James he tuk a howlt o’ William, and ‘Bap yersel’, says he; and with that he coped him off his gran’ white horse, and he drooked him in the watter.

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With that he joined to go forrard, and James he should have come forrard fornenst him, but 241 Andy’s mare, she just planted the fore-feet o’ her and stud there the same as she was growed in the ground.

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Then thur’s the knots to kum off o’ thet, though fornenst ’em thur’s bridles.

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I will show that are proposition is unconstitutionable, inlegal, and fornenst the compact.

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