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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Sure enuf he had it, but pretended it was all a mistake, jest as he did when I caught him in the Kernel's trowsers.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba
“I mout a managed that sort o’ existence for a longer spell, tho’ I acknowledge it war tiresome enuf.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne
“But we might approach under cover near enough—” “Near enuf for nothin’.
From The Yellow Chief by Reid, Mayne
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