bettermost

bettermost adjective: best, superior.

Adjective

bettermost

(colloquial) best, superior
- Most all the bettermost folks in these parts are axed, and the doctor, the lawyer, and the minister is invited; it's no skim-milk story, I do assure-you, but upper crust, real jam.1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker, Or Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville
- The "universal fermentation," which Mr. Hume (Chap. xlv.) describes as about the beginning of the seventeenth century, occasioned by the revival of letters, then first became operative in the diffusion of knowledge among the people, at least among the bettermost classes, enlarged men's ideas, and...1861, Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux, “Revolting Doctrines of the Stuart Princes”, in The British Constitution

Not from smaller men, mind you, nor yet from our equals ; but what's simple impidence an' sauce not to be borne from the common sort, be just greatness of mind in the bettermost.1904, Eden Phillpotts, The American Prisoner: A Romance of the West Country, page 183:
The bettermost bread in three counties, Pa used to say.2014, Rose Lerner, Sweet Disorder, page 76:

better + -most

What does bettermost mean?: Bettermost means best, superior.
How do you use bettermost in a sentence?: Not from smaller men, mind you, nor yet from our equals ; but what's simple impidence an' sauce not to be borne from the common sort, be just greatness of mind in the bettermost.
What part of speech is bettermost?: Bettermost is an adjective.

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