bestest

[bes-tist]

very best; better than the best: She's my bestest friend in the whole world.

Nearby words

1750–60; best + -est¹ suffix forming the superlative

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So li'l Mose he grab up de nex' bestest pumpkin an' he scoot.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories|Various
Give my bestest love to Lilla, please, and my untutored homages to the Daughters of Music.
The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II|Henry James
For I come to ask you to take my Tommy—God bless him for the bestest, sweetest boy that lives—to—to—take him with you.
Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2|Various
Dat's his bestest rubber plant what he tol' me to take partic'lar care of.
Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's|Laura Lee Hope

We crept in dar not 'cause we thought it war safe, but 'cause it war the bestest thing we could do.
Wyoming|Edward Sylvester Ellis

Word Origin and History for bestest

adj.

jocular emphatic superlative of best (which is itself a superlative), attested from 1834.