Meanings
adverbsternforemost (not comparable)
- archaicnot comparablenauticalastern, to the rear.
- archaicfigurativelynot comparableIn an awkward, blundering manner.
A fatal genius for going sternforemost.
1870, James Russell Lowell, Among my Books
Origin
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