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
O! but I love his lady too-too much, And that's the reason I love him so little.
From Two Gentlemen of Verona 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
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 Horatia K. F. Eden
They in themselves, good sooth, are too-too light.
From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
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