snell and frore

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I'm not particularly enjoying The Worm Ouroboros, and I switched from reading to skimming about a hundred pages in. But one thing that keeps pleasing me about it is the sheer volume of words I've never encountered before. There's a new one every couple of pages. Most of them are archaic, and a fair number of them are Scottish. Many of them look like typos, but when I look them up, they turn out to be real words.

I haven't been writing down most of them, but here are a few that I did take note of:

  • peace and grith
  • false fazarts
  • A footra for your baits!
  • the breath of that desert blew snell and frore

I particularly like that last one. Snell and frore!

One Response to “snell and frore”

  1. Vardibidian

    I use snell quite often, but have not previously encountered ‘frore’. OED says it is only in poetical use, so be cautious in prose.

    Thanks,
    -V.

    “Time upon my head hath laid his frore and monitory hand.” R. Southey.

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