adj. and adv. (common).—An intensive: mighty, great, exceedingly.
1824. DE QUINCEY, Works (1871), XVI. 261. Such rubbish, such ALMIGHTY nonsense (to speak transatlanticé) no eye has ever beheld. Ibid. [Century]. He is in an ALMIGHTY fix.
1833. MARRYAT, Peter Simple III. v. An ALMIGHTY pretty French privateer laying in St. Pierre’s.
1853. BULWER-LYTTON, My Novel. The child … is crumpling up and playing AI MIGHTY SMASH with that flim-flam book. Ibid. Enough to destroy and drive into ‘ALMIGHTY SHIVERS,’ a decent fair-play Britisher like myself. Ibid. Let us cut short a yarn of talk which … might last to ‘ALMIGHTY CRACK.’
1888. New York Mercury, 21 July. I wonder whether the other boys gits as many customers to that place?… If they do it must be ALMIGHTY full sometimes.
