Forlong vs Furlong - What's the difference?
forlong | furlong |
To be possessed with longing.
* 2009 , Carol Gilligan, Kyra :
To keep or continue longer; prolong.
* 1496 , Dives and Paupers:
* 1999 , James Joyce, Finnegans Wake :
* 2005 , Swede Hastings, Creeping Shadows :
(archaic) A unit of length equal to 220 yards or exactly 201.168 meters, now only used in measuring distances in horse racing.
As a verb forlong
is to be possessed with longing or forlong can be to keep or continue longer; prolong.As a noun furlong is
(archaic) a unit of length equal to 220 yards or exactly 201168 meters, now only used in measuring distances in horse racing.forlong
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) forlangen, equivalent to . Cognate with (etyl) verlangen.Etymology 2
From .Verb
(en verb)- And then after, forlonged , forlonging, longing without end. I looked at his hands, his fingers long, elegant, the hands of a conductor.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 3
From .Verb
(en verb)- They haue leuer to gyue .xx. shellynges to forlonge the soules in payne all a yere.
- Struggling forlongs I have livramentoed, milles on milles of mancipelles.
- Now certain shadows followed me. Forlonged memories move round From visions inside my head I see [...]