splendiferous

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1. Beautiful, splendid.

   Hey boss, did you ever see a more splendiferous crash?

   1964, Nikos Kazantzakis, Michael Cacoyannis, Zorba the Greek, spoken by Alexis Zorba (Anthony Quinn)

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   Oh ! you splendiferous creatur’! you anngeliferous anngel! here am I, Ralph Stackpole the Screamer[…]

   1837, Robert Montgomery Bird with William Harrison Ainsworth, Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky, pages 118–119

   And I'd like to have a large house and a splendiferous garden, and then you could all come and live with me, and we would play in the garden, and Dorry should have turkey five times a day if he liked.

   1872, Susan Coolidge [pseudonym; Sarah Chauncey Woolsey], What Katy Did

   "[…]I want to write something most splendiferous to-day, and I am sure to find it in your face. I have ceased to be an original writer; all the purple patches are cribbed from you."

   1900, J. M. Barrie, Tommy and Grizel

   You move a motion? Steve boy, you’re going it some. More bluggy drunkables? Will immensely splendiferous stander permit one stooder of most extreme poverty and one largesize grandacious thirst to terminate one expensive inaugurated libation?

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Chapter 14 "Oxen of the Sun"]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

   but somebody who'd given my Uncle Sol a Victor Victrola and records while he lived presented to him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a scrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and

   1959, e. e. cummings, “nobody loses all the time”, in 100 selected poems, page 21