mostest dial. and joc.
(ˈməʊstɪst)
var. most a. (n.) and adv. Esp. the mostest, the greatest amount or degree (of something).
Regarded by many users as a double or strengthened superlative.
| 1885 Indianapolis Jrnl. 15 Nov. 10/4 We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun. 1887 Parish & Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 104 Mostest, farthest; greatest distance. ‘The mostest that he's bin from home is 'bout eighteen miles.’ 1892 E. Terry Let. 4 July in Ellen Terry & Bernard Shaw (1931) 9 It's mostest kind to write to me so about my young friend. 1905 Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal 14 May ii. 4/6 It is one of the favorite arguments of his detractors that General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the noted Confederate cavalry leader, was an illiterate man... One [story]..gives Gen. Forrest's answer to the question, ‘How do you manage to win your battles?’ ‘Git thar fust with the mostest men,’ is the reputed reply. 1909 M. Diver Candles in Wind xxxv. 360 ‘I'm her friend, Paul—just as much as you are...’ ‘No, I'm the mostest. She said so.’ 1935 Word Study Oct. 2/2 One of their favorite games was called ‘The Ten Mostest’. Each player would choose 30 words: 10 that he or she considered the most beautiful words, 10 funniest words, and 10 most descriptive words. 1940 C. Boothe Europe in Spring vii. 172 Norway of all countries was the kind of country which, if you ‘got there fust with mostest men’, you couldn't be got out of in a day or a year, perhaps ever. 1949 O. Nash Versus 68 K is for Keeler..The fustest and mostest To hit where they ain't. 1958 Daily Herald 25 Mar. 5/7 Here's the hostess with the mostest... Her guests all agreed Sophia was pretty good..well, pretty, anyway. 1959 Times 14 Sept. 3/5 A great ambition to be there firstest with the mostest. 1960 Time & Tide 24 Dec. 1599/1 Eddie Byrnes..he's the mostest act on scope. 1971 Engineering Apr. 57 But we make the mostest. 1973 A. Hunter Gently French vii. 64, I reckon you admire the mostest in anything. |