fremd

comparative fremder · comparative more fremd · superlative fremdest · superlative most fremd · alternative frem · alternative frim · alternative fren

1. Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.

   a fremd day

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   Something fremd has been going on here.

   A fremd man this.

   Pits it i' da fremd-man's hert.

   1892, Haldane Burgess, Rasmie's Büddie, section 43

2. Not kin, unrelated; foreign.

   [...] seeing that they were fremd in heart, if they were kin in blood.

   1851, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), Passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside

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   The doctor went up to the bed, and said, firmly, " Miss Garnock, you must not keep Mr. Yonge any longer." "Who'll he be that comes meddling between me and my Tar?" shrieked the patient. "Mither, bid yon fremd body gang his ways. I'll no be fashed wi' him the day."

   1868, Legh Knight, Tonic Bitters: A Novel, page 181

   [...] and if I'm to be no more hereafter to them that belong to me, than to legions of strange angels, or a whole nation of fremd folk!

   1873, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine

   There's room for everybody in the world, I suppose, and something for everybody to do, and it behoves them that have few kin to make the more friends of fremd folk.

   1873, Heathergate, Heathergate, page 66

   Thus, a person living with a family to whom he is not related is termed "a fremd body." If it were asked, "Is he akin to you?" the answer would be, "Nawe, he's fremd," i.e. "he's one of us, but not a relation."

   1875, John Howard Nodal, George Milner, A glossary of the Lancashire dialect

3. obsoleteWild; untamed.

plural fremds · alternative frem · alternative frim · alternative fren

1. dialectalrareA stranger; someone who is not a relative; a guest.
2. archaicobsoleteAn enmity.

plural fremds · alternative frem · alternative frim · alternative fren

1. InternetchildishHumorous alteration of "friend".