MORE SO, adv. (common).—A general intensitive: see quots.
1892. HUME NISBET, The Bushranger’s Sweetheart, viii. But that distant production of Australia, the larikin, is still very much to the fore, as spry, active, and wicked as he ever was, perhaps rather MORE SO.
1892. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, p. 38. Pink Dominos style, only MORE SO, but blowed if ’t was up to that mark.
