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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1768-1996
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YONDER, adv., adj. Also yunder (Sh.); yon(n)er; and by conflation with Yont, yonter. Sc. forms and usages. [′jon(d)ər, Sh. ′jʌndər]
I. adv. 1. In that place, over there. Gen.Sc. Now arch. or dial. in Eng. See also Thonder.Sc. 1819 J. Rennie St Patrick III. iv.:
Yonner a gatherin' o' the Pehts.Sc. 1825 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) I. 74:
He accompanied me to the Trows, up aboon Kelso yonner.Abd. 1836 J. Grant Tales 195:
What i' the warld was he doing yon'er?Bnff. 1871 Banffshire Jnl. (19 Dec.) 9:
I'm an offisher frae the Custom Hoose at Leith yonner.Kcd. 1874 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. 254:
"Wha was your last maister?" "Oh, yonder him," said the boy.Sh. 1902 J. Burgess Sh. Folk 95:
Lass, der been a mosst aaful onkerry yunder.Lnk. 1923 G. Rae Lowland Hills 62:
Yonner trows the fleein' sky, Ower heaven's face.Sc. 1965 Scotland's Mag. (Sept.) 54:
A man from "through yonner" in the west.Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 49:
Anely Henry, an aulder chiel frae his ain depairtment, wis ay yonner, scraunin the Friday job section o the local paper, like a chukken scrattin ower rock grun desperate for a pickin o seed.
2. In combs. and phrs.: (1) far frae a' yonder, nae (near) a' yonner, 'not all there', simple-minded, half-witted (ne.Sc. 1974); (2) yonder-abouts, in that district, there or thereabout (Sh., Per. 1974); (3) yond(e)r awa, and I.Sc. forms yondra, -droo, yundru, over there, in that place (Sh., Ork. 1905 E.D.D., yondra; I.Sc. 1974); (4) yonder-by, id.; (5) yondermaist, adj., farthest, most distant (ne.Sc. 1974); (6) yontermert, further over, along a bit, a corruption of O.Sc. yonderwart, obs. Eng. yonderward, id., by conflation with O.Sc. compar. form yondermair. Cf. (5).(1) ne.Sc. 1894 A. Gordon Northward Ho 66:
He wusna jest wud or clean daft, bit he was far, far frae a' yonder.Abd. 1903 W. Watson Auld Lang Syne 81:
He's nae near a' yonner.(2) Slk. 1828 Hogg Shep. Cal. (1866) xv.:
Ye ken how we are plaguit down yonder-abouts.(3) Sc. 1817 Scott Rob Roy xxvi.:
"The limes," he assured us, "were from his own little farm yonder-awa" (indicating the West Indies with a knowing shrug of his shoulders).Sc. 1864 M. Oliphant Katie Stewart V.:
Muckle the fisher lads yonder-awa' think o't for a treat.Sh. 1952 Robertson and Graham Sh. Grammar 15:
Sees du da mön yundru abön da Wart.Sh. 1972 Tocher No. 8. 248–9:
This James Harrison cam doon yondroo to Burravoe. . . . There a place doon yondrawa where they played the ball.(4) Ags. 1871 J. Macpherson D. Matheson 190:
"Where is her house?" "Yonner by," said the lad, pointing to a house about a mile distant.(5) Sc. 1879 P. H. Waddell Isaiah 4:
I sal gie till thee the far-aff folk in fee, an' the yondermaist neuks o' the warld till yer ain ha'din.(6) Fif. 1825 Jam. s.v. Yound:
Sit yontermert, sit farther off.
II. adj. That (over there), distant, far (‡Abd., Ags. 1974).Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore (S.T.S.) 57:
They scour Out o'er the yonter brae, wi' a' their power.Ayr. 1831 T. MacQueen Amusements 4:
In the beild o' yonner hedge, I sat me down.
