bestest en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From best + -est.
Meanings
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(childish, humorous, informal, nonstandard) Best; the best of the best.
You're my bestest friend in the whole world!
It was the bestest teddy I ever had.
I'm in his favorite sundress, watching me get undressed / Take that body downtown / I say, "You da bestest," lean in for a big kiss
2011, Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker, “Video Games”:Crickey, I'm about sprung. Tarnally dog gone my shins if this beent the bestest puttiest longbreak yet.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 405:"Know that there have elapsed of this our day, which be Friday, and this Friday be the tenth of the month Safar in the six hundred and fifty-third year since the Hegira or Flight of the Apostle (on whom be the bestest of blessings and peace!)[.]
1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIX, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 304:I'm a Flavor Unit MC / And that means I'm one of the roughest, def-est, toughest, best-est
1993, “Bring The Flavor”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:It had been the very bestest of bigly weekends. Two rounds of golf at his very own course in Turnberry.
2025 July 28, John Crace, “Sidekick Starmer can’t get a word in as The Donald dominates world’s most one-sided double act”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: