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  • noun UK, obsolete, Northern England Eye dialect spelling of farthing.

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Examples

  • 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

  • I told the young gentleman so, and he gave it me, and I laid it out honest to the last brass farden.

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

  • ‘Never owed a farden,’ said the cobbler; ‘try again.’

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • Sir Pitt did not care, as he said, a brass farden for any one of them.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • 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

  • '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

  • "There ain't no money -- not a farden -- only a bit o 'paper," Polly said, with disappointment.

    A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

  • Sir Pitt did not care, as he said, a brass farden for any one of them.

    IX. Family Portraits 1917

  • 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

  • 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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