"frontish" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1962, Clancy Sigal, Going Away: A Report, A Memoir, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 238:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1963, Ken Kelman, “Smith Myth”, in P. Adams Sitney, editor, Film Culture Reader (Praeger Film Books), New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: Praeger Publishers, published 1970, page 284:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2004, Sheila Kogan, Step by Step: A Complete Movement Education Curriculum, second edition, Champaign, I.L.: Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 80:",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
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          "ref": "2018, Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, Kill the Farm Boy, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 267:",
          "text": "Garden path or not, she'd found a narrow porch and a door that looked frontish enough.",
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          "ref": "2019 May 13, Jim D, “road trip”, in alt.music.makers.soloact (Usenet):",
          "text": "We had good center frontish seats and so I could frame the group very well in the camera.",
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        "Somewhat to the front."
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        "(informal, rare) Somewhat to the front."
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          "text": "This rule makes sense because palatal sounds are frontish themselves, and assimilation rules are the most common type of morphophonemic rule (see chapter 3).",
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        "Of a sound: produced near the front of the mouth."
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        "(phonology) Of a sound: produced near the front of the mouth."
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          "ref": "2015, Sabrina Ramnanan, Nothing Like Love, Toronto, Ont.: Anchor Canada, published 2017, →ISBN, page 223:",
          "text": "Gloria snorted. \"Sangita is one frontish woman.\"",
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        "Assertive, pushy."
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Ken Kelman, “Smith Myth”, in P. Adams Sitney, editor, Film Culture Reader (Praeger Film Books), New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: Praeger Publishers, published 1970, page 284:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Sheila Kogan, Step by Step: A Complete Movement Education Curriculum, second edition, Champaign, I.L.: Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 80:",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "2018, Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne, Kill the Farm Boy, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 267:",
          "text": "Garden path or not, she'd found a narrow porch and a door that looked frontish enough.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 May 13, Jim D, “road trip”, in alt.music.makers.soloact (Usenet):",
          "text": "We had good center frontish seats and so I could frame the group very well in the camera.",
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        "Somewhat to the front."
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        "(informal, rare) Somewhat to the front."
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          "text": "This rule makes sense because palatal sounds are frontish themselves, and assimilation rules are the most common type of morphophonemic rule (see chapter 3).",
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        "(phonology) Of a sound: produced near the front of the mouth."
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          "text": "Gloria snorted. \"Sangita is one frontish woman.\"",
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