absotively
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBlend of absolutely + positively
Adverb
editabsotively (not comparable)
- (informal, humorous or childish) Absolutely and positively.
- 1920 September, “Style and Stability (advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 17, number 3, page 159:
- That is one of the twelve reasons why Charlotte Diners are absotively the best little old dining chairs produced in this Land of the Free—and Prohibition has nothing to do with it.
- 1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:
- “Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:absitively.
Usage notes
editSee absitively.