hostess with the mostest
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8.2
- idiom
- Informal
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anfitriona excepcional
- Jessica is known among her friends as the hostess with the mostest, always putting in extra effort to create a memorable atmosphere.
Examples
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She's the hostess with the mostest.
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At the party, she truly embodied the title of hostess with the mostest, ensuring every guest felt welcomed and entertained.
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Everyone agreed that Emily was the hostess with the mostest because she prepared delicious food and arranged fun activities for her guests.
Synonyms
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1.5
A woman who welcomes and entertains guests at a party or home
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3.5
A person who is the most lively and entertaining at a party
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3.7
A person who is lively and makes people laugh at parties
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7.4
A person who is very good at having parties and making guests feel welcome
A person who welcomes and looks after guests at a party or inn
A person who is full of energy and makes a party more fun
How Entertaining
Surface Forms
Morphology
hostess + with + the + mostest
The head noun 'hostess' combined with an exaggerated superlative form ('mostest') makes the intended meaning — an exceptionally good or most capable hostess — partly inferable from the parts, so a learner who knows 'hostess' and the idea of 'most' would likely guess the general sense. However, 'mostest' is nonstandard, playful and idiomatic, and the exact humorous/intensifying nuance and fixed phrasing are not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Hostess with the mostest may come from a playful rhyme that paints a picture of a hostess who has the mostest — the most food, the most guests and the most care for people at her party. So, the phrase came to mean 'a woman who is especially good at entertaining guests'.