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
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
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 Beaumont, Francis
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.
Nay, it is hers, I know it too-too plain.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
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