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  • adverb colloquial Alternative spelling of perzactly.

Etymologies

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Blend of precisely and exactly

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Examples

  • Indeed, no species is exempt, as Tigger (of Winnie the Pooh fame) illustrates with his penchant for such blends as prezactly ('precisely + exactly').

    Archive 2008-12-01 DC 2008

  • Indeed, no species is exempt, as Tigger (of Winnie the Pooh fame) illustrates with his penchant for such blends as prezactly ('precisely + exactly').

    On Kitchen Table Lingo DC 2008

  • Then he answered easily: "Jess prezactly de same, Rastus, wid de exception dat de dawg am 'maginary."

    More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

  • And who had gone to her rest holding to her thin breast a rag-doll that was kin to her by bornation, Loujaney being poor folks herself and knowing prezactly how't was.

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • "I s'pose we can't do any wuss," mumbled Old Rocks; "though I don't prezactly know how we're goin 'ter trail them critters through ther warter."

    Frank Merriwell's Bravery Burt L. Standish 1905

  • "Wa-al, I dunno prezactly, but I reckon I kin find him ag'in."

    Frank Merriwell's Bravery Burt L. Standish 1905

  • "Massa always 'spects folks to do prezactly as he tells dem."

    Elsie's Womanhood Martha Finley 1868

  • So if you don't feel just prezactly well, you can sit in the rocking-chair, and I will do it all. "

    What Two Children Did Charlotte E. Chittenden

  • "No, Massa Tom, I'se not prezactly 'skeered, but I done jest' membered dat I didn't gib mah mule Boomerang any oats t'day, an 'he's suahly gwine t' be desprit mad at me fo 'forgettin' dat.

    Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record Victor [pseud.] Appleton

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