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
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 Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
Well, son, I will curse you no more, Except ye provoke me too-too sore; But I marvel why ye do me move To do for Ulysses, that doth not us love.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew
When I lie a-dying, I will you messengers make: You ply you so fast, you are too-too diligent.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Which, Joe, is why I ses ter you— Aesthetic-like, and limp, and free— Now ain't they utterly too-too, Them flymy little bits of Blue?
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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