fer.ninst

prep.Upper Southern U.S. （介詞）【美國(guó)南部偏北】
Opposite, near to, or against:
在…對(duì)面、附近或旁邊：
例句：
Their barn is ferninst the house.
他們的谷倉(cāng)在房子對(duì)面

來(lái)源：
Dialectal fornent, fornenst
方言 fornent, fornenst
fore
fore
anent, anenst from Middle English * see anent
anent, anenst 源自 中古英語(yǔ) *參見(jiàn) anent

<注釋>Ferninst, meaning .opposite, next to, against,. has been attributed to Irish English, brought over during the peak years of Irish immigration to the United States in the mid-9th century. However, other, earlier citations with various spellings date further back: .I walked with them to a room nearly fornent the old state-house. (Davy Crockett). These variant forms are traceable to the American colonial period, when the source of ferninst was probably Scotland or other parts of the British Isles. The term is now dying out; Craig M. Carver, in his book American Regional Dialects, reports that .only nine [ DARE ] informants, all well over sixty-five years of age, used this term.. A derived noun ferninster, meaning .someone who is deliberately contrary,. is also used: .The trouble with the Republican leaders in Congress . . . is that they are just ferninsters. (William Allen White).
Ferninst 的意思是.在…對(duì)面、附近或旁邊，.該詞曾被認(rèn)為屬于愛(ài)爾蘭英語(yǔ)，是9世紀(jì)中期愛(ài)爾蘭人遷移到美國(guó)的高峰期帶來(lái)的。然而，其它或更早的不同拼寫(xiě)的引證可追溯到更遠(yuǎn)： .我和他們走到幾乎正對(duì)著那個(gè)舊客艙的一個(gè)屋子里. （戴維克·羅克特）。這些不同的形式可追溯到美國(guó)殖民時(shí)期， ferninst 的起源可能是蘇格蘭或英國(guó)小島的其他部分。這個(gè)詞條現(xiàn)在消失了；克瑞格·M·卡文，在他的書(shū) 美國(guó)地區(qū)方言 中記述了.僅九個(gè)[ 美國(guó)方言 資料提供者，年紀(jì)都已過(guò)了六十五歲，用這個(gè)詞條.。派生的名詞 ferninster， 意思是.故意相反的人，.也用于： 共和黨領(lǐng)導(dǎo)在議會(huì)中的麻煩…是因?yàn)樗麄冎皇切┳韵嗝艿娜?/i> （威廉·艾倫·懷特）