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語源

Blend of absolutely +‎ positively

副詞

absotively (not comparable)

1. (informal, humorous or childish) Absolutely and positively.
   • 1920 September, “Style and Stability (advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 17, number 3, page 159:

     That is one of the twelve reasons why Charlotte Diners are absotively the best little old dining chairs produced in this Land of the Free—and Prohibition has nothing to do with it.

   • 1925, Cohen, Octavus Roy, Bigger and Blacker, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, LCCN 25009513, OL 6677250M:

     “I is sad; absotively mis'able. What you reckon kind of pitcher they is takin' down there?”

   • 1994, Heller, Joseph, Closing Time, →ISBN, LCCN 94020604, OL 1096036M:

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

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

使用する際の注意点

See absitively.

派生語