frontish

comparative more frontish · superlative most frontish

1. informalrareSomewhat to the front.

   Garden path or not, she'd found a narrow porch and a door that looked frontish enough.

   2018, Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, Kill the Farm Boy, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 267

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   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

   "Help!" I'll hear from teachers. "My children move forward, backward, and turning OK, but I can't get them to go straight sideways. It always looks frontish."

   2004, Sheila Kogan, Step by Step: A Complete Movement Education Curriculum, second edition, Champaign, I.L.: Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 80

   We had good center frontish seats and so I could frame the group very well in the camera.

   2019 May 13, Jim D, “road trip”, in alt.music.makers.soloact (Usenet)

2. human sciencesOf 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 TobagoAssertive, pushy.

   Gloria snorted. "Sangita is one frontish woman."

   2015, Sabrina Ramnanan, Nothing Like Love, Toronto, Ont.: Anchor Canada, published 2017, →ISBN, page 223