onlest
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of onliest.
Adjective[edit]
onlest (not comparable)
- (US, dialectal, especially African-American Vernacular, possibly dated) Only.
- I'm the onlest father them boys has got.
- c. 1850-1970, Scott Dunbar, quoted in 2009 by William R. Ferris in Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues →ISBN:
- I knowed the onlest thing to get her cured was to get a bucket of ice water, […]