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e'enamost, adv. Eng. and U.S. dial.|ˈiːnəməʊst|
Also α. e'en a most, a'most; β. enymost, eeny(-)most, enermost.
[f. e'en even adv. + a'most almost adv.]
Almost; nearly.
α1735–6Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876), E'en a'most, almost. 1781Pennsylvania Jrnl. (Philadelphia) 20 June, I once heard a man say, another ‘swore terribly; he swore e'en amost like a wood pile’. 1839Havana (N.Y.) Republ. 21 Aug. (Th.), [The whale's head] was e'en a most off. 1843T. C. Haliburton Attaché I. xiv. 253 The repudiation of debts has lowered us down e'en a'most to the bottom of the shaft. 1844‘J. Slick’ High Life in N.Y. I. iv. 43 He looked eenamost tuckered out. 1891H. Frederic Copperhead (1894) 208 ‘I could e'en a'most 'a' thought it was Alvy talkin',’ was what he said. 1911in Dialect Notes III. 543.
β1813Jane Austen Let. 18 Oct. (1932) II. 356 Poor Will Amos..said the fleas were so starved..that they..eenermost eat him up. 1833C. A. Davis Major Downing 168 It was made so long ago he has enymost forgot it. 1840Crockett Almanac 2 The sun will be enermost hid. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. xiv. 113 He..has got the whole Bible eeny most by heart. 1870Stowe Oldtown Fireside Stories (1871) 189 Then he'd jaw and scold so that she was eenymost beat out. |