▪ I. ˌteeˈtotally, adv.1 dial. and U.S.
[Reduplicated form of totally.]
Totally, entirely, wholly.
| 1832 Judge Jas. Hall Legends of W. Philadelphia 38 [Kentucky backwoodsman says] These Mingoes..ought to be essentially, and particularly, and tee-totally obflisticated off of the face of the whole yearth. 1836 Haliburton Clockm. xix. (1837) 195, I hope I may be tee-totally ruinated, if I'd take eight hundred dollars for him. 1839 De Quincey Casuistry Rom. Meals Wks. 1854 III. 277 An ugly little parenthesis between two still uglier clauses of a teetotally ugly sentence. 1888 Dr. Tanner Sp. Ho. Com. 20 July, The division, if it were taken now, would be taken entirely and tee-totally—(great laughter)—upon party lines. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 232 They weren't tee-totally lost. |
b. With allusion to teetotal 1.
| 1841 Hood Tale Trumpet xxxviii, The man teetotally wean'd from liquor. 1850 Tait's Mag. XVII. 548/1 [Drink] a thing accursed, to be tee-totally abhorred and abandoned. |
▪ II. teetotally, adv.2 rare.
[f. teetotal a. 1; see teetotally adv.1 b.]
In a teetotal manner, with total abstinence from alcoholic drinks.
| 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. viii. 533, I lived through my Bohemian days as sober as Shaw if not nearly so teetotally. |