Oxford University Press Text Capture Instructions

 

Headwords within senses in slang dictionary entries

Variations of the headwords are sometimes given within the sense content and appear as bold. Capture variations in variant elements.

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<e id="acref-9780199543700-e-4" doi="10.1093/acref/9780199543700.013.0004">
<headwordGroup>
<headword>abso-bloody-lutely</headword><partOfSpeech>adverb</partOfSpeech>
</headwordGroup>
<section role="main" id="acref-9780199543700-section-4"><textMatter>
<div1 id="acref-9780199543700-div1-13">
<p>Used as a considerably more emphatic version of ‘absolutely’. <date isoDate="1935">1935</date>–.</p>
<p>
<displayText class="prosequote">
<p>
<nameGrp foreNames="E." mainName="Weekley">
<b>E.</b>
<b>Weekley</b>
</nameGrp> A crude example of this persisting instinct [to
‘add body and content to words’] is offered by the contemporary
<i>abso-bloody-lutely</i> (<date isoDate="1935">1935</date>).</p>
</displayText>
</p>
<p>Other infixed forms of the word are <variant>abso-blessed-lutely</variant>, the now
dated <variant>abso-bally-lutely</variant>, the equally euphemistic
<variant>abso-blooming-lutely</variant>
</p>
<p>
<displayText class="prosequote">
<p>(<nameGrp foreNames="A. J." mainName="Lerner">
<b>A.</b>
<b>J.</b>
<b>Lerner</b>
</nameGrp> Oh so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still! I
would never budge 'til Spring crept over me windersill (<date isoDate="1956">1956</date>))</p>
</displayText>
</p>
<p>, and <variant>abso-fucking-lutely</variant>.</p>
</div1></textMatter>
</section>
</e>
Release ID:
20261202
ID:
OUP_A-Z_Reference_Works_OxEncyclML_TCI_topic_8_1_9
Author:
dunnm
Last changed:
Wed, 04 Jun 2025
Modified by:
buckmasm
Revision#:
4400