eftest

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adjective

Quickest or most convenient.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. rareQuickest or most convenient.

    Vayu is the eftest deity

    2014, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Charles A. Moore, A Source Book in Indian Philosophy, page 494
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    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

Origin

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.

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Cite this entry
APA

eftest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eftest

MLA

“eftest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eftest. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eftest,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eftest.

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