ferninst

prep

1. (US, dialectal)Against.

   “Those pink-satin evening slippers simply lose all their display value when you stick those red-kid bed-slippers right up ferninst them that way.”

   “"It's right ferninst where yer afther stan'in, up the stairs on the corner of Granefield Coort--over there, bedad."”

   “But Fate, as he expressed it in the vernacular, was "ferninst him."”