exactamundo

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English

Etymology

From exact +‎ -amundo as an intensifier; compare Spanish exactamente. Popularized by the character Fonzie on the sitcom Happy Days.

Pronunciation

Adverb

exactamundo (not comparable)

  1. (slang) Exactly.
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest , Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 1017:
      'Exactamundo.
    • 2002 November 25, Nathan Leslie, Rants & Raves, PublishAmerica, →ISBN, →OL, page 110:
      Since I am a writer, I can be more concerned with more important things like writing a sentence until I get it right, because I can't seem to get it exactamundo, and until I get it exactamundo, I can't exactly go on to the next sentence
    • 2010 July 16, Ralph Raab, The Gutenberg Gambit: The Second Adventure from the Biblio Files‎, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL:
      Exactamundo! Well ... almost exactamundo.

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