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- noun UK, obsolete, Northern England
Eye dialect spelling offarthing .
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Examples
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In mai orifice, ai luks out of windoe and uses wot ai sees, butt snerk chainge letturs around – like garden fence becums farden gence.
frank discovers - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I told the young gentleman so, and he gave it me, and I laid it out honest to the last brass farden.
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‘Never owed a farden,’ said the cobbler; ‘try again.’
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Sir Pitt did not care, as he said, a brass farden for any one of them.
Vanity Fair 2006
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The other swore that they were “naught but brass, and not worth a copper farden”; until the tars, being too tipsy for much fighting, referred the question to Sir Duncan.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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'I've got a matter of a hunnerd an' four pound clear arter payin 'ivery farden owin', an 'the stock an' nets an 'gear and tew boots {184} an' all wha'ss mortgaged ta yew.
Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" James Blyth
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"There ain't no money -- not a farden -- only a bit o 'paper," Polly said, with disappointment.
A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann
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Sir Pitt did not care, as he said, a brass farden for any one of them.
IX. Family Portraits 1917
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I dunnow whether I did right, sir, but I told un you would never take a farden less.
The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins Brampton, Henry H 1904
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Now, here's a bag, 'sez he, 'a bag full of imporrtant papers for my solicitor -- imporrtant to me, ye ondershtand, not worth the shine av a brass farden to a sowl else -- an' I want 'em tuk on to him.
Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
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