yonderly

comparative more yonderly · superlative most yonderly

1. UKdialectalobsoleteanxious; absent-minded; vacant.

   Yonderly, vacant; besides himself. 'He looks yonderly', i.e. lost, or poorly.

   1883, Thomas Lees, A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, page 152

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   "Well then, what's do wi' thee ; for thou's lookt o mornin as yonderly as if thou'd lost th' guiders o' thy een ?"

   1885, Ben Brierley, Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life. – Irkdale; or, the Odd House in the Hollow