Meanings
comparative more eenamost · superlative most eenamost
- dialectalalmost, nearly.
I swanny if I ever felt so in my life ! I was so anxious about that long letter that I sent to them to get printed for you, that I was dreadful loth to go in, and eenamost made up my mind to turn about and make tracks for the sloop agin !
1843, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York, page 7
Origin
Blend of e'en (“even”) + a'most (“almost”).
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eenamost. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eenamost
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