Olympic-y

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Sun Feb 12 21:55:54 UTC 2006


> And observers of the Buffyesque productive suffix "-y"
>should appreciate his use of "Olympic-y":
>
> "I got all Olympic-y."

Is the total construction "all [noun]-y"?  I hear "all" used this way a bunch.  But I'm not a Buffy fan, so I don't know if that's the origin.

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