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backmost

adj
/ˈbækˌmoʊst/US

Etymology

From back + -most.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. suffixed as backmost — “back + most”

Definitions

  1. farthest back

    • 1922, Thomas Hardy, Late Lyrics and Earlier This [hobby] was to delve at whiles for easel-lumber, / Stowed in the backmost slums of a soon-reached city, / Merely on chance to uncloak some worthy canvas, […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA