Forky vs Forby - What's the difference?
forky | forby |
forked
* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Abigail Stanley Hanna, title=Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The forky lightning flashed, and the deep toned thunder reverberated peal on peal, while the shrieking winds rocked the tree tops, and poured their wild melody upon the ear. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1896, author=Captain Frederick Marryat, title=The Phantom Ship, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The column of fire now ascended above the main-top--licking with its forky tongue the top-mast rigging--and embracing the mainmast in its folds: and the loud roar with which it ascended proved the violence and rapidity of the combustion below, and how little time there was to be lost. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Various, title=The Red Romance Book, chapter=, edition=
, passage=At the sight of the young man it lashed its tail so violently that the earth trembled as if with an earthquake, while its forky tongue darted in and out with a deafening hissing noise. }}
Past; by; beyond.
* 1899 , Richard Garnett, Alois Leonhard Brandl, The universal anthology :
Uncommonly; exceptionally.
Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
Past; gone by; over.
Near; beside; by, close to.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
On one side; out of the way.
Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.
With the exception of; not taking into account.
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As adjectives the difference between forky and forby
is that forky is forked while forby is uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.As an adverb forby is
past; by; beyond.As a preposition forby is
beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.forky
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forby
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Alternative forms
* foreby * (l)Adverb
(en adverb)- To see the world and folk that went forby , [...]
- He was forby kind.
Preposition
(English prepositions)- Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.
- There was other six forby me.