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Gammerstang commented on the word eatenest
(adjective) - I have . . . noticed some of our rather curious superlatives . . . Walking over a ploughed field, a rustic, noticing some spear-grass, said, "It is the eatenest thing that grow" - that is, the most exhausting or devouring of the soil.
--Edward Moor's Suffolk Words and Phrases, 1823
January 16, 2018