onlest
Only.
Adjective
- Only.
- I'm the onlest father them boys has got.
- I knowed the onlest thing to get her cured was to get a bucket of ice water, […] - c. 1850-1970, Scott Dunbar, quoted in 2009 by William R. Ferris in Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues →ISBN
Origin
Variant of onliest.