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ˈfar-down, n. and a.
A. n. (Also far-downer.) An Irish-American belonging to a family which emigrated from the north of Ireland. U.S.
1834Amer. Railroad Jrnl. III. 384/1 The parties arrayed against each other are known as the Fardowns and the Corkonians. a1837R. J. Breckinridge Memoranda (1845) I. 29 This city [sc. Cork] gives name to one of those bloody factions, which under the appellations of Corkonians and Fardowns divide the lowest classes of Irish Catholics in that distant land [sc. U.S.A.]. 1857Spirit of Times 21 Feb. 405/2 They formed into two hostile factions, called Corkonians and Far-Downers. 1899Echo 9 Mar. 1/2 Down in that quarter of Chicago you can hear all the ‘various accents of Ireland, from the awkward brogue of the ‘far-downer’ to the mild and aisy Elizabethan English of the Southern Irishman’.
B. adj. Situated or existing far below.
1911Fletcher & Kipling School Hist. Eng. vii. 134 The far-down shark Shoots glimmering on his ways. 1949Blunden After Bombing 49 In the far-down street That Statue watched the laughing markets meet. |