"tee-totally" 1810
Stephen Goranson
goranson at DUKE.EDU
Wed Mar 30 15:04:26 UTC 2011
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
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ptsearch?id=nyp.33433074820337&q1=tee-totally
Stephen Goranson
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