eftest

形容词 adj.
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英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Quickest or most convenient. rare
    — Here 'Turk's emotion overcame him: he lifted up his head, turned around, and finding the 'eftest way' and place to lie down upon the hearth-rug, he 'sought repose' before the cheerful grate: […]

词源

The word is used by Dogberry in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (and may be a deliberate error, since Dogberry frequently uses malapropisms). Other writers have used the word in direct allusion to Shakespeare's use. Compare eftsoons and see -est.
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