Meanings
alternative absatively · alternative absitively
- childishhumorousinformalnot comparableAbsolutely and positively.
“Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”
1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL3 more examples
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.
1920 September, “Style and Stability (advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 17, number 3, page 159“I is sad; absotively mis'able. What you reckon kind of pitcher they is takin' down there?”
1925, Octavus Roy Cohen, Bigger and Blacker, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →LCCN, →OL“Damn it!” “I am so sorry. I'm such a klutz.” “What's your version number?” “It's, uh, it's Adam 5, ma'am. It won't happen again.” “Let's hope not.” “Absotively. Uh, absolutely. Of course.”
2017 April 4, Will Campos, Dez Dolly, Daniel Johnson & David Welch, “MatchMaker” (19:46 from the start), in Dimension 404, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Adam (Robert Buckley)
Origin
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