eenamost
English
editEtymology
editBlend of e'en (“even”) + a'most (“almost”).
Adverb
editeenamost (comparative more eenamost, superlative most eenamost)
- (dialectal) almost, nearly.
- 1843, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York, page 7:
- I swanny if I ever felt so in my life ! I was so anxious about that long letter that I sent to them to get printed for you, that I was dreadful loth to go in, and eenamost made up my mind to turn about and make tracks for the sloop agin !