now-now

British  

adverb

1. informal right away; immediately

   I'll do it now-now!

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Example Sentences

Instead, it’ll be sometime in the near future, or, to use a quintessential South African expression, “now-now.”

From New York Times

“Please carry your bag and go now-now,” she said.

From Literature

Non-vegans who eat ice cream derived from cow's milk inexplicably swarm to an article about vegan ice cream, with their foot-tapping, now-now lectures about how vegans are missing out, but it's the vegans who are the food fascists.

From New York Times

I'll have it very soon, if not just now-now!

From Project Gutenberg

The figures and emblems on the hanging were invisible in the gloom—but now-now there was a stir, as of life, in the ponderous folds,—they moved—they began to ripple like streams, brooks, water-falls, recovering motion after long stagnation—the curtain slowly sank, and at length it fell so suddenly that the eye could scarcely note the instant.

From Project Gutenberg