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/fəˈbʌɪ/ · adjective
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior..
He's a forbye man.
To see the world and folk that went forby, […]
He was forby kind.
Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.
There was other six forby me.
[T]hey ca' it fasting when they hae the best o' fish frae Hartlepool and Sunderland by land carriage, forbye trouts, gilses, salmon, and a' the lave o't, and so they make their very fasting a kind of luxury and abomination; […]
"Put on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, forby your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep the breath of life in me."
Use forby when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Forby means (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior..
Common synonyms include next to, beyond, on top of, barring.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He's a forbye man.
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