maist
Americanadjective
determiner
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What troubled me maist was yer muther’s defiance when I was minded te punish ye for bein’ out late.”
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
It’s as he says now, I doubt, about maist things.”
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
"Heck, man," was the reply, "did ye no ken there's aye maist sown o' the best crap?"
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy
"I am come, sir," said I, "in a matter o' the maist interest in nature to you and your dochter May."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
I watched, wi' filial care and affection, a' her maist minute symptoms.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
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