firstmost
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, first + -most.
Adjective
[edit]firstmost
- superlative form of first: most first; first even among others of leading rank.
- 1892, Elijah Kellogg, John Godsoe's Legacy, page 116:
- "We've got more meat than we shall know what to do with, Edward. Take the horse, go down to Charlie Bell's ship-yard, borrow a tackle, and ask Edmund Griffin to come and help us dress him; but firstmost let's get him into the barn, out of the hot sun."
- 1948, Thomas Owen Beachcroft, Collected Stories of T.O. Beachcroft, page 363:
- Apart from that I don't know the firstmost thing about getting divorced." I've found out all about it, Ma," she said.
- 1991, Jim Ritchie, Shocco Tales: Southern Fried Sagas, page 39:
- The firstmost thing I remember about him was something he told me, and I'll get to that in a minute.
- 1999, Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods, Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn:
- "Firstmost," he said, "I wish to extend my thanks for the goodwill and friendship, though both be undeserved, such as you would show by your having come