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), 232. They weren’t tee-totally 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.
