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单词 too too
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too too
4. Reduplicated for emphasis: too too (formerly occasionally written as one word, toto, totoo, tootoo).
a. Qualifying an adjective or adverb; chiefly in sense 2c (Very common c1540–1660.)
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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 271 It was toto ferre oddes yt a Syrian born should in Roome ouer come a Romain.
1582 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 162 Threed..some tootoo hard spun, some tootoo soft spun.
1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. C1v Vsed Bona fide, it was too too bad.
1595 Blanchardine & Eglantine liv. 213 Ah ! to to well I suspected..that my captiuitie would bring her callamity.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 129 O that this too too sallied flesh would melt. View more context for this quotation
1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vi. 633 Hir fears..were but too-too-well grounded.
1745 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 550/1 Not apt to toy, and yet not too too nice.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. xi. 211 It is too, too apparent.
1885 Leland Brand-new Ballads (ed. 2) 109 Perishing to find Something which was not too-too-utter-ish To serve for dinner.
1887 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 3 109/2 The too-too painfully ceremonious manners..of the French.
b. Qualifying a verb, as in sense 2d; also absol.
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a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ciii He doth abuse, hym selfe to to.
1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. A.iii By my soule I loue thee too too.
1557 Dialoge of Comfort (new ed.) iii. xx, in Wks. Sir T. More 1247/2 I cannot then see, that the feare..shold any thing sticke with vs, & make vs toto shrinke.
?1562 Thersytes sig. D.iv It is to, to, [sic] mother, the pastyme and good chere That we shall see and haue.
c. As adj. in predicative or attributive use: excessive, extreme; extremely good, highly exquisite.An affectation, connected with the ‘æsthetic’ craze of c1880–90. In quot. 1891 = characterized by the use of ‘too too’.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > very excellent or first-rate
gildenc1225
prime1402
rare1483
grand1542
holy1599
pre-excelling1600
paregal1602
classic1604
of (the) first rate1650
solary1651
first rate1674
superb1720
tip-top1722
tip-top-gallant1730
swell1819
topping1822
of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1826
No. 11829
brag1836
A11837
A No. 11838
number one1839
awful1843
bully1851
first class1852
class1867
champion1880
too1881
tipping1887
alpha plus1898
bonzer1898
grade A1911
gold star1917
world-ranking1921
five-star1936
too much1937
first line1938
vintage1939
supercolossal1947
top1953
alpha1958
fantabulous1959
beauty1963
supercool1965
world-class1967
primo1973
1881 Punch 26 Mar. 138 (caption) ‘Have you seen the Old Masters at Burlington House?’.. ‘Are they not really quite too too!!’
1891 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 11 30/2 Let the exclusive too-too æsthetes tolerate the remark that music and painting do not exist for them.
1893 N. H. Kennard Diogenes' Sandals i. 12 The piece is nowhere; but my frocks are too too!
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