Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Nautical With the stern foremost; backward.
Wiktionary
- adv. With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance.
- adv. figuratively In an awkward, blundering manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.
Etymologies
- stern + foremost (Wiktionary)
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Figuratively
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Hence, figuratively
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
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