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eftest

eftest adjective: quickest or most convenient.

Adjective

eftest

  1. (rare) Quickest or most convenient.
    • Here 'Turk's emotion overcame him: he lifted up his head, turned around, and finding the 'eftest way' and place to lie down upon the hearth-rug, he 'sought repose' before the cheerful grate: […]1855, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 637
    • Vayu is the eftest deity2014, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Charles A. Moore, A Source Book in Indian Philosophy, page 494

Origin of eftest

The word is used by Dogberry in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (and may be a deliberate error, since Dogberry frequently uses malapropisms). Other writers have used the word in direct allusion to Shakespeare's use. Compare eftsoons and see -est.

Questions about eftest

What does eftest mean?
Eftest means quickest or most convenient.
What part of speech is eftest?
Eftest is an adjective.

Words near eftest in the dictionary

  1. EFSF/ESM
  2. eft
  3. EFTA
  4. efter
  5. efters
  6. eftest
  7. EFTO
  8. EFTPOS
  9. efts
  10. EFTSL
  11. eftsones

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