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headforemost

adv

Etymology

From head + foremost.

  1. derived from *-mHo-✻
  2. derived from *pr-✻
  3. inherited from *frumistaz✻
  4. inherited from formest
  5. compounded as headforemost — “head + foremost”

Definitions

  1. headfirst

    • ’Twere best at once to sink to peace, ⁠Like birds the charming serpent draws, ⁠To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease.
    • Exerting all his remaining strength he rushed down the bank, dropped his rifle, and plunged headforemost into the stream.
    • He doubled up and went headforemost to the ground.

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