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faither

/ ˈfeðər /

noun

  1. a Scot word for father
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

I don't remember t' first, because I was nobbut a little 'un, but I've heerd my faither tell on 't.

"Oh, thank the Lord, laddie!" cried Janet, clasping her hands in devout thankfulness, "that He hath spared ye to your widowed faither—and to me, your auld unworthy nurse!"

Whatever will I say to his faither when he comes hame?

Weel, my lad," he would say, patting my head, "how d'ye do—and how's your faither, and how's your mither?

My faither before me lived in that bit housie out yonder amang the trees, and he used aften to say, gude auld man! that the lines had fallen to us in pleasant places, and that we had a goodly heritage.

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