frontish

Adjective

frontish (comparative more frontish, superlative most frontish)

1. (informal, rare) Somewhat to the front.
   • We were sitting, more or less peaceably, in the frontish rows of the darkened theater when the cops broke in, pouring in from all exits.1962, Clancy Sigal, Going Away: A Report, A Memoir, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 238
   • When the first show was over, a clique, a claque of six or so, back on the west side applauded. And I, all alone, east of the aisle up frontish, applauded, amid the numb and blind.1963, Ken Kelman, “Smith Myth”, in P. Adams Sitney, editor, Film Culture Reader (Praeger Film Books), New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: Praeger Publishers, published 1970, page 284
2. Of a sound: produced near the front of the mouth.
   • This rule makes sense because palatal sounds are frontish themselves, and assimilation rules are the most common type of morphophonemic rule (see chapter 3).2006, Thomas E[dward] Payne, Exploring Language Structure: A Student's Guide, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 141
3. (Trinidad-and-Tobago) Assertive, pushy.
   • Gloria snorted. "Sangita is one frontish woman."2015, Sabrina Ramnanan, Nothing Like Love, Toronto, Ont.: Anchor Canada, published 2017, →ISBN, page 223