"headforemost" meaning in All languages combined

See headforemost on Wiktionary

Adverb [English]

Etymology: From head + foremost. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|head|foremost}} head + foremost Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} headforemost (not comparable)
  1. headfirst Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: headfirst, headlong
    Sense id: en-headforemost-en-adv-HbebQviY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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  "etymology_text": "From head + foremost.",
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          "ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXIV, page 53:",
          "text": "’Twere best at once to sink to peace,\n⁠Like birds the charming serpent draws,\n⁠To drop head-foremost in the jaws\nOf vacant darkness and to cease.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1894, Robert Michael Ballantyne, The Dog Crusoe and His Master:",
          "text": "Exerting all his remaining strength he rushed down the bank, dropped his rifle, and plunged headforemost into the stream.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Who Goes There?:",
          "text": "He doubled up and went headforemost to the ground.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, B. M. Bower, Good Indian:",
          "text": "Quick, or I'll land you headforemost in that pond, you infernal old hag!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        {
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          "ref": "1894, Robert Michael Ballantyne, The Dog Crusoe and His Master:",
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          "text": "Quick, or I'll land you headforemost in that pond, you infernal old hag!\"",
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    {
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    {
      "word": "headlong"
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