Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
perfectly .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Perfectly.
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- adverb obsolete
perfectly
Etymologies
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Examples
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All that you've got for to do is to keep parfitly still till the turtles comes out o 'the sea, d'ye see?
Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America 1859
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"Now, that bein 'the case, an' the baggage all wet, an 'the day parfitly beautiful, an' the sun about hot enough to bile the sea, we can't do better nor stay where we are, an 'mend the canoes, dry the goods, an' start fair to-morrow mornin '."
Ungava 1859
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"I kan not parfitly my paternoster, as the priest sayeth,
The Dukeries Murray Gilchrist 1892
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I can't say no fairer than that, for, as to askin 'adwice on religious matters from the likes o' me, w'y the thing's parfitly ridiklous! "
Jarwin and Cuffy 1859
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