Barrington, Illinois. Barrington is a suburban village in Cook and Lake Counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,327 at the 2010 census. Located approximately 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Chicago, the area features wetlands, forest preserves, parks, and horse trails in a country-suburban setting.
Howdy is an informal greeting, commonly thought to have originated as a shortened form of the greeting How do you do?. It was first recorded as part of the South England dialect in 1680.[1] Literature from that period includes the use of How-do, how-do and How as a greeting used by the Scottish when addressing Anglo settlers in greeting. The double form of the idiom is still found in parts of the American Southwest as Howdy, howdy.
Meaning man who attends excessively to dress, etiquette, etc.; a fop; a dandy is from 1680s, short for Fr. beau garÃ§on pretty boy (c.1665). Men knew him as one who set the fashions in dress and manners, so that he had been compared to Beau Brummel.