too-too
Americanadjective
adverb
Etymology
Origin of too-too
First recorded in 1890–95; originally adjective use of adverb phrase too too
Example Sentences
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Veblen would surely have seen Vertu as too-too.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2010
That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for, I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding fantastical; too-too vain, too-too vain: but we will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la guerra.
From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
It must be so, but how? there lies the point: How? thus: tut, this device will never prove, Augment it so: 'twill be too soon descried; Or so, nor so; 'tis too-too dangerous.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
Why, why, why, why, which, gu, gu, gu, gu, Gods fool She was bo-bo-bo-bo-born at the barn yonder, By-be-be-be-be-Beggars Bush-bo-bo-Bush Her name is, My-my-my-my-my-match: so was her Mo-mo-mo-Mothers too-too.
From Beggars Bush From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10) by Francis Beaumont
A little girl of about three called to her mother, "Too-too sick, too-too sick," and when finally the train started on again, the child was overjoyed that "too-too" was well again.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
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