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語源

Blend of positively +‎ absolutely

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副詞

posilutely (not comparable)

1. (informal, humorous or childish) Positively and absolutely.
   • 1922 June, Percy K. Fitzhugh, “Roy Blakely's Bee-Line Hike”, in Boys' Life, volume 12, number 6, →ISSN, page 19:

     “Anyway, we're not trespassing now,” Hunt put in. “Posilutely not,” I said.

   • 1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:

     “Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”

   • 1998, Lewis Kornfeld, The Pheromone Factor: Twenty-Five Short Stories:

     "No way, madam, it's posilutely confidential," I chuckled.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:posilutely.

関連する語

• absitively/absotively
• absitively posolutely
• absitively
• absotively posilutely