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
Gloster, thou wilt be too-too venturous; Thou dost delight in those odd humours so, That much I fear they'll be thy overthrow.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
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
Which, Joe, is why I ses to you— Æsthetic-like, and limp, and free— Now ain't they utterly too-too, Them flymy little bits of Blue?
From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen
Now will you present my grateful acknowledgments to Mrs. Going, and say that with some decent qualms at my own greediness—I "too-too" gratefully accept her further kind offers.
From Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Eden, Horatia K. F.
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