adv. dial. and U.S. [Reduplicated form of TOTALLY.] Totally, entirely, wholly.
1810. ‘Piomingo,’ The Savage, 263. She ’s as good a piece of horse flesh as ever was foalded—I’ll be tee-totally damned if she an’t.
1821. Blackw. Mag., X. Nov., 424/1. For I’ll be teetotally d—d, if Matt. Higgins shall allow either a tailor, or any other loblolly to enter his crew, without his knowledge.
1832. Judge Jas. Hall, Legends of W. Philadelphia, 38. [Kentucky backwoodsman says] These Mingoes … ought to be essentially, and particularly, and tee-totally obflisticated off of the face of the whole yearth.
1836. Haliburton, Clockm., xix. (1837), 195. I hope I may be tee-totally ruinated, if I’d take eight hundred dollars for him.
1839. De Quincey, Casuistry Rom. Meals, Wks. 1854, III. 277. An ugly little parenthesis between two still uglier clauses of a teetotally ugly sentence.
1888. Dr. Tanner, Sp. Ho. Com., 20 July. The division, if it were taken now, would be taken entirely and tee-totally—(great laughter)—upon party lines.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 47. Ruins ’em, bodily and teetotally. Ibid., 232. But they weren’t teetotally lost.
b. With allusion to TEETOTAL 1.
1841. Hood, Tale Trumpet, xxxviii. The man teetotally wean’d from liquor.
1850. Tait’s Mag., XVII. 548/1. [Drink] a thing accursed, to be tee-totally abhorred and abandoned.
