totus porcus

adverb

Completely; unreservedly.

“I swallowed the official version totus porcus.”

OriginLatin tōtus →
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Meanings

adverbtotus porcus (comparative more totus porcus, superlative most totus porcus)

comparative more totus porcus · superlative most totus porcus

  1. idiomaticslangCompletely; unreservedly.

    I swallowed the official version totus porcus.

    1 more example

    As a founding principle of our trip, Margaret and I decided that if we were going to go, we would go whole hog, totus porcus, super deluxe all the way

    1996 February 25, Michael Korda, “The Nile in High Style”, in New York Times, Travel section

Origin

  1. Latintōtus“whole”
  2. Englishtotus porcus

Pseudo-Latinism, a reduplication derived from Latin tōtus (“whole”) + porcus (“hog”); translated as whole hog.

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