frontish

Somewhat to the front.

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.

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.

Of a sound: produced near the front of the mouth.

This rule makes sense because palatal sounds are frontish themselves, and assimilation rules are the most common type of morphophonemic rule (see chapter 3).

Assertive, pushy.

Gloria snorted. "Sangita is one frontish woman."