absotively

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Etymology

Blend of absolutely +‎ positively

Adverb

absotively (not comparable)

  1. (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.
    • 1925, Octavus Roy Cohen, Bigger and Blacker, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →LCCN, →OL:
      “I is sad; absotively mis'able. What you reckon kind of pitcher they is takin' down there?”
    • 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

See absitively.

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