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单词 teetotally
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teetotallyadv.1

Etymology: Reduplicated form of totally adv.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌteeˈtotally.
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.
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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

Etymology: < teetotal adj. 1; see teetotally adv.1 b.
rare.
In a teetotal manner, with total abstinence from alcoholic drinks.
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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).
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