farrant

You never heard sic a cratur for thae auld-farrant sayin's; an 'Mysie's no' far ahent.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

"I'm a gey auld-farrant-looking dear, I doubt," said Nanny, ruefully.

The Little Minister 1898

The auld-farrant, scraichin ', obstinate grey gander.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

He was "ill-farrant," and revengeful, -- ready to fight, but not ready to forgive.

That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

But na; it seems he was owre auld-farrant for the like of that.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

He was "ill farrant," and revengeful – ready to fight, but not ready to forgive.

That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story 1877

Commons -- an 'he to be dead at last! the warld'll seem quite unco without his auld-farrant phizog on the streets.

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

Balaamry -- fechtin 'that canny auld farrant fiend, Mammon, wi' his ain weapons -- and then a 'fleyed, because they get well beaten for their pains.

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

Ochiltree, is very skeely and auld-farrant about mony things, as the diseases of cows and horse, and sic like, and I am sure be disna want to be at Tannonburgh the day for naething, since he insists on't this gate; and, if your leddyship pleases, I'll drive him there in the taxed-cart in an hour's time.

The Antiquary 1845

Often she declared that he was an "auld farrant bairn, and could ask a blessing like ony minister."

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837