fer.ninst
prep.Upper Southern U.S. （介词）【美国南部偏北】 Opposite, near to, or against:在…对面、附近或旁边：例句：Their barn is ferninst the house.他们的谷仓在房子对面
来源：Dialectal fornent, fornenst 方言 fornent, fornenst fore foreanent, anenst from Middle English * see anent anent, anenst 源自 中古英语 *参见 anent
<注释>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…对面、附近或旁边，.该词曾被认为属于爱尔兰英语，是9世纪中期爱尔兰人迁移到美国的高峰期带来的。然而，其它或更早的不同拼写的引证可追溯到更远： .我和他们走到几乎正对着那个旧客舱的一个屋子里. （戴维克·罗克特）。这些不同的形式可追溯到美国殖民时期， ferninst 的起源可能是苏格兰或英国小岛的其他部分。这个词条现在消失了；克瑞格·M·卡文，在他的书 美国地区方言 中记述了.仅九个[ 美国方言 资料提供者，年纪都已过了六十五岁，用这个词条.。派生的名词 ferninster， 意思是.故意相反的人，.也用于： 共和党领导在议会中的麻烦…是因为他们只是些自相矛盾的人 （威廉·艾伦·怀特）
