Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A condition of utmost perfection: played the part of the martyr to a fare-thee-well.
- n. The most extreme degree: beat his opponent in the match to a veritable fare-thee-well.
Wiktionary
- adv. alternative spelling of fare thee well.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. state of perfection; the utmost degree.
WordNet 3.0
- n. state of perfection; the utmost degree
Etymologies
- From fare thee well, may it go well with you, good-bye. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Turning things on their head is a fine old tactic, which the Right has mastered to a fare-thee-well.”
“Clear out the clutter, clean everything to a fare-thee-well and arrange your furniture to highlight the home's best features.”
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“Attorney General Eric Holder quickly obliged last week, without so much as a fare-thee-well to the First Amendment.”
“Yes, but "these kinds of things" were debated to a fare-thee-well at the time Palin uttered her utter lie and, before that, in the car on the way back from grandma's house.”
The Washington Post: Obama gives in to Sarah Palin's dishonesty
“Â Traditional Christians argue that the only way to greet people is by saying âMerry Christmasâ, while others feel that it is more politically correct to opt with the âHappy Holidaysâ fare-thee-well.”
“A fine and noble sentiment, to be sure, but the actual fare-thee-well for Mr. Limpboner should be, “Vaya con dildos, Rush.””
Think Progress » Limbaugh vows to flee the country if health care passes.
“Some bloggers play that game, too, but many more have lively comboxes where the issues of the day are hashed out to a fare-thee-well.”
“No sooner has the birth taken place than Part II finds the adult Messiah reviled by his people, weighed down by sorrows, and executed without so much as a fare-thee-well.”
“No one was more surprised than I was when she pulled up stakes with little more than a fare-thee-well and just left them.”
“His last thirty rounds served as the coup de grace, “Taps” and a fare-thee-well to the poor sonovabitch all shot to hamburger in his robes.”
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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well-hyphenated
well-appointed, well-founded, well-being, well-meaning, well-read, well-fixed, well-wordnikked, well-set, well-marked, well-done, well-timed, well-wish and 97 more...
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Words to Whisper
fare-thee-well, boss of me, dapper, ingenuous, starflower, light out, tauntingly, romeo, parabolic, intuition, adient, delusion and 5 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (F)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
faery, fairy cross, fairy ring, falcon, fare-thee-well, farewell-summer, farthing, faun, fawn, felicitous, felicity, fencing and 109 more...
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