gonest

gonest

1. (uncommon) superlative form of gone: most gone
   • 2000, James M. Hutchisson, quoting Duke Ellington, Dubose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 165:

     Ellington telegraphed to Breen, “Your Porgy and Bess the superbest, singing the gonest, acting the craziest, Gershwin the greatest.”

• G-notes, Stonge, Tonges, gets on, stenog, tonges

Back-formation from onest from English honest from Old French honeste, from Latin honestus, from honor.

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔnɛsd/, [ˈɡɔnɛst]
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔnasd/, [ˈɡɔnast]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːnɛsd/, [ˈɡoːnɛst], /ˈɡɔnɛsd/, [ˈɡɔnɛst]
• Rhymes: -ɔnɛsd

gonest (feminine singular gonest, plural gonest, equative mor onest, comparative mwy gonest, superlative mwyaf gonest)

1. honest

• a bod yn onest (“to be honest”)
• gonestrwydd (“honesty”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gonest”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies