enuf
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of enuf
First recorded in 1680–85
Example Sentences
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It's not enuf for offenders to "think about what they did."
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2018
Mabye its because I dint try hard enuf or just some body put the evel eye on me.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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His nerves went, and in less than a year he was dead, sure enuf.
From Tales from the Veld by Glanville, Ernest
I shed a done so hed it been near enuf, tho’ I knowd I ked niver a swum ashore.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne
The groun’ war dampish, for thar had been a spell o’ rain; so I tuk out my bowie, an’ cut me enuf o’ the green cane to make me a sort o’ a shake-down.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne
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