单词 | teetotally |
释义 | teetotallyadv.1 dialect and U.S. a. Totally, entirely, wholly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > entirely, altogether, or completely righteOE allingOE outlyOE allOE throughoutlyc1175 allingsa1225 throughouta1225 thoroughc1225 albedenec1300 outc1300 quitelyc1330 all-whollya1375 most widelya1382 all wholea1393 all-thinga1398 algate?a1400 algatesc1405 thoroughly1442 mainly1550 outrighta1560 outrightly1642 solely1710 teetotally1832 bodaciously1833 teetotaciously1833 orl1864 1832 J. Hall Legends of West 38 [Kentucky backwoodsman says] These Mingoes..ought to be essentially, and particularly, and tee-totally obflisticated off of the face of the whole yearth. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) xix. 195 I hope I may be tee-totally ruinated, if I'd take eight hundred dollars for him. 1839 T. De Quincey Dinner in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 828/1 An ugly little parenthesis between two still uglier clauses of a tee-totally ugly sentence. 1888 Dr. Tanner Speech House of Commons 20 July The division, if it were taken now, would be taken entirely and tee-totally—(great laughter)—upon party lines. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 232 They weren't tee-totally lost. b. With allusion to teetotal adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adverb] > total abstinence teetotally1841 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 160 The man teetotally wean'd from liquor. 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 548/1 [Drink] a thing accursed, to be tee-totally abhorred and abandoned. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2020). teetotallyadv.2 rare. In a teetotal manner, with total abstinence from alcoholic drinks. ΚΠ 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. viii. 533 I lived through my Bohemian days as sober as Shaw if not nearly so teetotally. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adv.11832adv.21934 |
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