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awfully

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1816, OED Evaluation: slang.

As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely; (also) very badly.

ExampleMeaning
Yeah, the- the plate mill takes out some but not near as much. We l-- we always took out- weight out a pound less per hundred than took in and what moisture did go out the plate grinds for the plates got awfully hot. But yet they couldn't get out of the elevator so moisture pretty well but still it dries out some.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
It took them a long time and many cups of tea. We had to provide a little kettle and tea pot so everything stops for tea you-know in England. They were awfully nice fellows, one of them sang in the choir for a while, while he was here.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
... the first concerts that were put on were a little on the painful side but I kept going and of-course they improved and ah since they were just beginners they- well, they did the best that they could, but their best wasn't awfully good, you-know in those first days. But they steadily improved and now the- the bands in the schools, the various schools- they really are worth something, and ah I can go without any fear of trembling now (laughs).
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
... it's just as difficult for us to buy men's shoes today as women's. By difficult I should say that the styles are changing just as rapidly for men as they are for women. And this keeps us on our toes. We have to be awfully careful because styles can change so rapidly. I was away from the business for about six months and when I came back early this year, I was surprised to see the minus-heel as a fad.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
And I believe that in Toronto and in Kitchener, the medical profession started knocking them and I don't know whether that was a factor or not. But all of a sudden they're rapidly disappearing. And I'm awfully glad that we have very few of them left. We have not bought any for the next season, not a single solitary pair. We cut off buying them back a few months ago and what we have now gone, that will be end of it as far as we are concerned.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
... well, one day a chap stopped to wish me good-luck and another car came along the other way, hit the hind end of my horse and so he threw me down this- over this fence and down a little hill. So the man who had been talking to me was awfully kind, he called up the State-Troopers, their headquarters in Troy and from then on, I went- I had a state-trooper with me each day.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
... he came up to Toronto and I dropped him a note and I had lunch with him and I reminded him of how pleasant our visit had been, and he wrote me an awfully nice letter back. I have it here and I'll show it to you ah-
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
It couldn't have been too long before that because I don't think they burned oil, ah, but they didn't pump oil in like they do now. They put it in with pouring; they poured it in. Because that was an awfully, that, he used to put the oil in. I remember that because he'd always come down and get a cup of cup of coffee or something before he went on to deliver more oil.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
Interviewer: Were there any family pets around the house? Speaker: Yes, Sally always had an Irish setter. She was always buying them , but there are awfully hard dog to raise, you had to keep them warm, and that cold house, they didn't survive.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
So ah- but ah they rebuilt and they only went up the one ah- the one floor you-see because they didn't want another fire. It's awfully hard to get insurance if you have two- two ah flights of stairs.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
... he wanted to go into mining engineering and the professor said, "now why are you thinking of mining engineering?" He said one of his best friends was going into mining engineering. So the professor said, "I think you better choose some other topic of engineering unless you're awfully keen because mining engineering is closed." So he went into chemical engineering ...
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
... I sort of lost track of him but anyway he is still in the plant where he went during the war and he must have got up pretty gar by now. The girls, my girls, married rather disastrously. She was an awfully clever girl. She got married and divorced and she was secretary to the principal of Toronto-University.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
But he was sweet and hard working but as I started to tell you, this essays- book of essays after- after he taught it two years he said, "I'm getting awfully tired of that book," I said, "Lester, I think I was teaching that book the day you were born." (laughs)
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
And I can remember one time they went um they stepped a little out and they prescribed a novel written by a well known English writer, modern writer. And um one teacher was teaching by having her classes read you-know read the words...I don't think it's an awfully good idea reading a novel like that, out in school because most of them read so badly, don't they?
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
... but if a teacher looks fresh and neatly dressed it makes a lot of difference to the students. And appropriately dressed, I can recall even when mini-skirts were at their shortest, that was appropriate for a teacher to wear. But anyway, they were the fashion. But I know, this is awfully funny, things they wore back then were priceless.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
To town? Oh, I think I can remember the first, ah, buggy they, ah- I was at, ah, my father's place. There was very high wheels, the thing was way up high, ah, great time for a big wheel. Of course, they were all going r-- over something awfully rough. You needed a big wheel.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Is that- i-- it's- I think it's so beautiful the way you can look at the birds and look out. It's absolutely- Speaker: Oh I can- my win-- my windows are on off-- awfully dirty but then it comes a hard rain, it dirties my windows. But I have to get help to get them out. Um, they have to be lifted up and pulled out.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: It was so normal to go "Oh well that one, one guy died, and that one, oh two guys died, and-" Interviewer: right Speaker: just seemed to be ah the casualty rate seem to be- now that I look back on it, seem to be awfully high. People were- there guys were dying, the workers, you-know
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What do you think of an American figure having that much impact on the Canadian culture? Speaker: Well, we are awfully close to the U-S and um, Canada tends to favour Democratic presidents so, there was a relationship there.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
... he had the Huck-Finn look, and ah I can remember um I can remember him taking the lead in the third round, but I can remember him playing just terribly awfully the last day and- and losing kinda miserably. And I can remember feeling so sorry for him.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.