Meaning & use

mostest

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An informal, humorous, nonstandard superlative meaning 'the most' or 'the best,' used for emphasis.

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She called her grandmother the 'hostess with the mostest.'

He bragged that his team had the mostest wins in the league, grinning at his own grammar.

A note on using this word

Popularized by the phrase 'the hostess with the mostest,' the word is a playful, deliberately ungrammatical double superlative rarely used in serious writing.

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