"tee-totally" 1810

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
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> Apparently “tee-totally” was used in 1810.
> “She ’s as good a piece of horse flesh as ever was foald- ed—I’ll be _tee-totally_ damned if she an’t.
> ”The savage, by Piomingo, a headman and warrior of the Muscogulgee (Philadelphia, 1810) p. 263
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_In a jiffy_ also occurs on the same page. Who'd-a thunk that that
expression could be found in print from 1810? Well, maybe a lot of
other people would have, but not I.

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