单词 | too too |
释义 | > as lemmastoo too 4. Reduplicated for emphasis: too too (formerly occasionally written as one word, toto, totoo, tootoo). extracted from tooadv. a. Qualifying an adjective or adverb; chiefly in sense 2c (Very common c1540–1660.) ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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! < as lemmas |
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