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English
Etymology
Variant of onliest.
Adjective
onlest (not comparable)
- (US, dialectal, especially African-American Vernacular, possibly dated) Only.
- I'm the onlest father them boys has got.
- (Can we date this quote?), Scott Dunbar, quoted in 2009 by William R. Ferris in Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues →ISBN:
- I knowed the onlest thing to get her cured was to get a bucket of ice water, […]
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