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
Which, Joe, is why I ses to you— Æsthetic-like, and limp, and free— Now ain't they utterly too-too, Them flymy little bits of Blue?
From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen
Do tell my wife, Prince John, by my dear mother, I love her too-too well to like another.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
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 Shakespeare, William
That fellow in the bays, methinks I should have known him; O, 'tis Comedus, 'tis so; but he has become nowadays something humorous, and too-too satirical up and down, like his great grandfather Aristophanes.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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