hard-favored - From Ulster to America
Source: From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English
Author: Michael Montgomery
Comments: From Ulster to America recounts the lasting impact eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster have made on the development of the English language of the United States. The book documents over 500 vocabulary items contributed to American English by these ‘Scotch-Irish’ settlers. Each ‘shared’ term with its meaning is authenticated by quotations from both sides of the Atlantic. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from the dictionary part of the second edition published by the Ullans Press in 2017.
hard-favored adj Of a person: having coarse or unattractive features, stern-faced, not handsome. [oed hard-favoured adj ‘having a hard or unpleasant … appearance’ →1852, archaic; dare hard-favored adj ‘coarse-featured, unattractive’ South, South Midland]
Ulst.:
1942 Bangor Words 40 = rugged or grim-featured.
U.S.:
1835 Longstreet Georgia Scenes 16 She hadn’t seen me then, or she never would have loved such a hard favoured man as you are.
1946 Shore Sign 4 I knowed when she got old and hard-favored, he’d start runnin’ round with some young hussy.
1975 Gainer Speech Mtneer 11 He’s a hard-favored man.
