单词 | veddy |
释义 | veddyadv. Frequently humorous. = very adv.A childish, affected, or (U.S.) supposed British pronunciation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 1859 E. Eden Semi-detached House xix. 257 Charlie would gravely say, ‘Yes, veddy true, pooty Rachel.’ 1938 Amer. Speech 13 157/2 For jocularity, newspaper writers..now sometimes write veddy for ‘very’. 1960 L. Kauffmann Waldo i. 14 Elegant and veddy sophisticated and all that sort of thing. But wastrels. 1967 J. P. Carstairs No Thanks for Shroud ii. 17 ‘Is that British?’ ‘Veddy,’ I grinned. 1975 Publishers Weekly 24 Feb. 114/1 Note humorous anachronism as Dylan's fish-girl pours him tea from a bone china teapot—veddy British! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adv.1859 |
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