onlest

English

Etymology

Variant of onliest.

Adjective

onlest (not comparable)

(US, dialectal, especially African-American Vernacular, possibly dated) Only.
I'm the onlest father them boys has got.
- c. 1850-1970, Scott Dunbar, quoted in 2009 by William R. Ferris in Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues →ISBN:
  I knowed the onlest thing to get her cured was to get a bucket of ice water, […]

Anagrams

Elston, Leston, Letson, Noltes, Solent, Tolens, lentos, stolen, telson

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