Meanings
- superlativeuncommonsuperlative form of gone: most gone
Ellington telegraphed to Breen, “Your Porgy and Bess the superbest, singing the gonest, acting the craziest, Gershwin the greatest.”
2000, James M. Hutchisson, quoting Duke Ellington, Dubose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 165
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