单词 | puredee |
释义 | puredeeadj.adv. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland). Thoroughgoing, out-and-out, complete, real. Also as adv.: very, totally, completely. ΚΠ 1912 Waco (Texas) Morning News 13 June ‘Captain Bill’, as he is called by his old friends, is a pure-dee Waco booster. 1938 Mississippi: Guide to Magnolia State (Federal Writers' Project) 15 It's the pure D truth. 1941 J. H. Street In my Father's House ix. 148 I'm pow'ful fond of Woody. He's a pure D man. 1952 B. Harwin Home is Upriver i. 8 Kip's lip curled at this slovenly practice, one which Pa had always called puredee shif'less. 1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 92 This State you can drink, this State you can't except pure-dee God-given water. 1972 T. C. Bambara Gorilla, my Love 88 So this one day Miss Moore rounds us all up at the mailbox and it's puredee hot and she's knockin herself out about arithmetic. 1991 Texas Monthly Nov. 128/1 If Tom Landry's Dallas Cowboys were America's team, the Oilers under Bum Phillips were puredee Lone Star. 2005 J. Smith P.I. on Hot Tin Roof 79 Hey, Eddie, I got a pure-D mess down at that marina—you got a few minutes to help me out? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.1912 |
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