Meanings
- not comparableslangExactly.
Exactamundo.
1976 January 20, James Ritz, “Football Frolics”, in Jerry Paris, director, Happy Days, season 3, episode 18, spoken by Fonzie (Henry Winkler)3 more examples
Exactamundo.
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 1017Since 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
2002 November 25, Nathan Leslie, Rants & Raves, PublishAmerica, →ISBN, →OL, page 110Exactamundo! Well ... almost exactamundo.
2010 July 16, Ralph Raab, The Gutenberg Gambit: The Second Adventure from the Biblio Files, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL
Origin
- Spanishexactamente
- Englishexactamundo
From exact + -amundo as an intensifier; compare Spanish exactamente. Popularized by the character Fonzie on the sitcom Happy Days.
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exactamundo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exactamundo
“exactamundo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exactamundo. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exactamundo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exactamundo.
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