foreright a OED ~ 3 a dial, EDD 5 s w cties; ADD (Nfld). Careless; heedless; reckless.
   1887 BOND 67 [He was] venturesome and foreright. 1897 J A Folklore x, 205 ~ But in Newfoundland it means reckless or foolhardy. 1924 ENGLAND 179 He'm foreright [careless], an' don't 'eed to nothin'. He do not one livin' tap, dat feller!

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