leftern
adjEtymology From left + -ern.
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Nonstandard, Rare Left (opposite of right).
- The leftern-most group was surprised and almost annihilated by Mauser fire; all the five officers were killed or wounded, [...]1904, Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe, The History of the Boer War, volume 2, page 473:
- On the leftern side in figure 1 there is sketched a structure consisting of 18 elements, which are connected in 10 nodes. [...] According to the scheme shown on the rightern side of figure 1: the grey squares stand for non-null valued coefficients, ...1984, B. A. Schrefler, Roland Wynne Lewis, S. A. Odorizzi, Engineering software for microcomputers: proceedings of the first international conference, held in Venice, Italy on 2nd-5th April 1984:
2 more examples
- If a player chooses Phallicity, she is eventually sent to the “Rightern” edge of the forest (it is a side-scroller after all), she will be asked to spy on “Mr. Marx” [...] Lumpen is sent to the Abbey down by the “Leftern”-most edge [...]2012, Xtine Burrough, Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design, Routledge, →ISBN, page 31:
- Eventually a truce was declared and a line drawn between the leftern and the rightern semispheres.2016, Dave Jeanes, The Gods, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
- Antonyms
- rightern