单词 | prezactly |
释义 | prezactlyadv. U.S. colloquial. Exactly; precisely. Frequently in representations of rural (esp. southern) speech. Cf. perzactly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adverb] > so as to match truth, exactly rightlyeOE rightOE faithfullyc1425 preciselya1513 justlya1538 verbatim1566 strictly1602 exactly1662 correctlya1704 prezactly1835 sensu stricto1849 perzactly1850 'zackly1886 1835 Mil. & Nav. Mag. U.S. Nov. 190 That's just what I think, prezactly. 1851 J. B. Lamar et al. Polly Peablossom's Wedding & Other Tales 53 The place whar you's er stanin ain't prezackly healthy. 1856 J. Pilgrim Ireland & Amer. ii. vi. 26 We can't get out presactly yet: dat's de signal of some ob de rascals. 1877 Galaxy June 786/1 ‘Prezactly!’ exclaimed Circus Jack with emphasis. 1926 H. Garland Trail-makers of Middle Border viii. 103 I noticed that right prezactly half-way between 'em was a sharp rock. 1997 D. Waller in D. Snowden Make Music go Bang 125 Way back in the day (1981, prezactly), I got the buglamp of an idea that the future for anything besides mainstream musical expression lay in independent recording. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1835 |
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