Meaning of frontish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Somewhat to the front.
   informal, rare
2. Of a sound: produced near the front of the mouth.
3. Assertive, pushy.
   Trinidad-and-Tobago

Examples

“We were sitting, more or less peaceably, in the frontish rows of the darkened theater when the cops broke in, pouring in from all exits.”

“When the first show was over, a clique, a claque of six or so, back on the west side applauded. And I, all alone, east of the aisle up frontish, applauded, amid the numb and blind.”

“"Help!" I'll hear from teachers. "My children move forward, backward, and turning OK, but I can't get them to go straight sideways. It always looks frontish."”

“Garden path or not, she'd found a narrow porch and a door that looked frontish enough.”

“We had good center frontish seats and so I could frame the group very well in the camera.”

“This rule makes sense because palatal sounds are frontish themselves, and assimilation rules are the most common type of morphophonemic rule (see chapter 3).”

“Gloria snorted. "Sangita is one frontish woman."”

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