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- adjective phonetics
superlative form ofback : mostback .
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Examples
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"If thou backest Kari ill," said his housewife, "know this, that thou shalt never come afterwards into my bed, and my kinsmen shall share our goods between us."
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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"Oh, yes," she assured him gravely; "that is except the very backest buttons."
The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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Page 17 precautions we — some of us were pretty — were often convulsed beyond bounds when "we met by chance, the only way," on the very backest street, a procession of college fellows on mischief bent, marching two and two, just like us.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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I told him I was one of the talking backest fellows he ever saw, and that one of my duties as a newspaper man was to criticise the conduct of the war.
How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 1878
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And I didn't finish packing my stuff left over at my parents 'house for ... um ... a few years, including those items stashed in the very backest back recesses of the closet.
kiwords 2008
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It all seems too complicated and so I'm hoping that I can find space in the backest back corner of my closet.
kiwords 2008
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Let me just tuck that away for a little bit, until we can order the hermit crab ... "and I tucked it away, far far away, in the backest back recesses of my closet.
kiwords 2008
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