mainest
English
Adjective
mainest
- (nonstandard) superlative form of main: most main
- 1844, The Foreign Quarterly Review (volumes 32-33, page 196)
- Feeling, however, that it was of the mainest importance to the cause, and to his client, not only to prove that he was a liberal but an orthodox politician, he shut himself up more than a month in his study, refusing all other business […]
- 1970, Margarete Orga, The house on the Fontanka: Modern Soviet short stories (page 62)
- I ran back again, then set out in the opposite direction — it must be somewhere, the cobbled road, the mainest road in all the world.
- 2014, Emily Barton, The Testament Of Yves Gundron
- Yes, we dig him deeply,
He's the mainest, mainest, mainest man.
- Yes, we dig him deeply,
- 1844, The Foreign Quarterly Review (volumes 32-33, page 196)
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