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servigrous, a. U.S. dial.|sɜːˈvaɪgrəs|
Also savigrous, sevigrous, survigrous.
[Orig. unknown: freq. associated with a dial. pronunc. of vigorous, and cf. savagerous a.]
Fierce, severe, tough, vigorous. Hence serˈvigrously adv.
1835A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 227 ‘Pretty sevigrous, but nothing killing yet,’ said Billy Curlew, as he learned the place of Spivey's ball. 1888‘C. E. Craddock’ Keedon Bluffs 88 He's a servigrous jumper, sure! Ibid. 215 The mos' servigrous singer they hed. 1890T. N. Page in Harper's New Monthly Mag. Dec. 114/1 She so savigrous I tolt her I 'ain' nuver had nobody to prevaricate nuttin' 'bout me. 1901Nashville (Tenn.) Banner 28 Oct. 4/3 The New York Sun..employs that expressive provincialism of the Southern mountaineer, ‘servigrous’... The Sun says Mr. William Travis Jerome is ‘servigrous’ in the kind of oratory he uses. 1913H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders xiii. 294 Survigrous (ser-vi-grus) is a superlative of vigorous (here pronounced vi-grus, with long i): as ‘a survigrous baby’, ‘a most survigrous cusser’. 1928M. Chapman Happy Mountain vii. 70 The Preacher must have been a rip-snorting and most survigrous young-un before he caught religion. 1938C. H. Matschat Suwannee River 81 Ary fowkses knows as how onion juice, rubbed in servigerously, sprouts hair like weeds after a rain, iffen so be ye stand in the sun. |