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Fare vs Farl - What's the difference?

fare | farl |

As verbs the difference between fare and farl

is that fare is while farl is .

As a noun farl is

(obsolete) a quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.

fare

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fare, from the merger of (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
  • Money paid for a transport ticket.
  • A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
  • Food and drink.
  • * , chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
  • (UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
    • Synonyms
    * (journey) see * (sense, prostitute's client) see
    References
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (archaic) To go, travel.
  • To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
  • * Denham
    • So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • To eat, dine.
  • * Bible, Luke xvi. 19
    • There was a certain rich man which fared sumptuously every day.
  • (impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
    • We shall see how it will fare with him.
  • * Milton
    • So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
    Derived terms
    * afare * farer * farewell * seafaring * spacefaring * warfare * wayfarer * welfare

    Derived terms

    * farewell * fareworthy * standard fare * warfare * welfare * workfare

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----

    farl

    English

    Etymology 1

    Contraction of fardel.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
  • Any such cake or bread, now particularly used for Irish specialities as soda farls and potato farls.

    • See also

    * soda bread * potato bread

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1647', '', '''1854 , Alexander Dyce (editor), ''The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions , Volume 2, page 416,
    • Down with the mainmast ! lay her at hull !
    Farl up all her linens, and let her ride it out !
    (Webster 1913)