Definitions
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- adverb southern US
nearly ;almost
Etymologies
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Re-analysis of like (to) (an adjective meaning "likely") as an adverb. (Forms like liked to and would have liked to are from re-analysis as a verb.)
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skipvia commented on the word like to
In the South, translated roughly as "almost" or "could have," as in "When I saw that woman show up in church I like to shit a watermelon."
October 30, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word like to
That's it. This is a Conversation for the Ages. Thanks for making me snarf my water all over my cubicle.
...Talk about putting the punchline at the end of a sentence, Jeez Louise!
October 30, 2007
skipvia commented on the word like to
A bit of evidence that many current Southernisms hark back to Elizabethan English:
"Tho' ye subjoct be but a fart, yet will this tedious sink of learning pondrously phillosophize. Meantime did the foul and deadly stink pervade all places to that degree, yt never smelt I ye like, yet dare I not to leave ye presence, albeit I was like to suffocate."
Mark Twain, 1601. See the list Firmament-Clogging Rottenness.
January 6, 2008
sionnach commented on the word like to
Hmm. methinks that skipvia is propagating a well-known (but demonstrably false) language myth.
language myths
January 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word like to
Well, maybe, but I like how skipvia propagates!
Wait... that came out wrong...
January 7, 2008