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oh-so, adv.|ˈəʊsəʊ|
Also oh, so.
[f. oh int. + so adv. III.]
Prefixed as an intensive (usu. with hyphen) to adjectives or adverbs, with the sense ‘ever so’, ‘extremely’ (usu. with sarcastic or ironical overtones).
1922Sketch 29 Mar. 513/3 A big grey felt hat, which looked, oh, so Spanish! 1952M. Laski Village ii. 33 Her sweet but, oh, so uninteresting face. 1960J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells vii. 66 That mawkish and oh-so-melodious book Holds one great truth. 1965Listener 27 May 797/2 The book is worth a shelf-load of those fashionable intellectualities that oh-so-knowingly chart out the spirallings of psychotic zombies, incapable of feelings, incapable of contacts, their spiritual telephone-wires all cut. 1966J. Porter Sour Cream xiii. 166 It just never entered Azatov's curly head that his oh-so-upright wife was cuckolding him every time his back was turned. 1972J. Gores Dead Skip xiv. 97 The mailboxes were set against the oh-so-rustic redwood slat fence. 1973Radio Times 20 Dec. 18/2 Very suave thriller with Laurence Harvey being oh-so-smooth. 1977Gay News 7–20 Apr. 22/1 Most people do feel oh-so-slightly apprehensive about meeting him. |