e'en a'most

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

for almost. A vulgarism.


The repudiation of debts by several of our States, has lowered us down e'en a'most to the bottom of the shaft.--Sam Slick in England, ch. 14.

He knows the Catechism, and has got the whole Bible eeny most by heart.--Margaret, p. 113.

The village boys would raise a party of gals, and start off early in the morning for Toad-hill, where the blackberries was e'en a'most as plentiful as mosquitoes in these diggings.--Lafayette Chronicle.

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

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