† teetotaciously, adv. U.S. dial. Obs.
(tiːtəʊˈteɪʃəslɪ)
Also tetotaciously.
[Fanciful elaboration of teetotally adv.1: see -acious and cf. bodacious a.]
= teetotally adv.1
| 1833 J. K. Paulding Lion of West (1954) ii. ii. 54 I'm the best man—if I ain't, I wish I may be tetotaciously exflunctified! 1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. xvi. 220 If that don't make me eat a niggur, may I be tetotaciously chawed up myself! 1859 T. De Quincey Coll. Works X. 247 The slave in Terence, viz., Davus, though otherwise a clever fellow, when puzzled by a secret, or (as in America they say) teetotaciously exfluncticated, excuses himself by saying—‘Davus sum, non Oedipus.’ |