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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
Interviewer: Yeah. And so that's astonishing that he would- you had such an enlighten-- enlightened inspector, coming out to Bathurst-Township. Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was awfully glad he came that day, because I didn't get no more hits on my hand! Interviewer: I'm left-handed too, I'm- thankfully, I didn't have to suffer like you did.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
... they had the new- add the new curriculum and you had to teach social studies and ah, and the British-Empire had to be taught, like India, and you-know, but it was awfully hard to get- to get enough- to get enough time, y-- you just had four minutes to teach each half-hour grade, you-know, bu-- it were eight pupil, or eigh-- eight classes and if you- but the teach-- they- inspectors didn't realize that ...
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
But it had- like, the chimney had been rebuilt. We had a- had a- had the chimneys rebuilt. Ah, not that awfully long before that but I didn't trust them, so.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Some of the people you're going to interview here were in that orchestra. Janet over there right now, she was in the same orchestra. We had an awfully good principal who really did organize things. So even if we never did continue with our instruments, we certainly were exposed to music.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
Interviewer: Were you ever good enough to ah- to think about pursuing it? Speaker: No, no. None of us were that good on that team. Interviewer: No? Speaker: No, not really. We had an awfully good coach, he'd been a quarterback for the ah London-Mustangs. Yeah, three or four years quarterback and that was a top team, Mustangs used to beat- beat up on the- on the ah Varsity-Blues all the time.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
But my dad loved to be with his kids, loved to be with his wife and would drive home, um, and get up- I remember it was just awfully hard to say good-bye to him. I found it very hard, ah, personally. He was- I was probably his little right-hand assistant.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
... my next teacher she was um an excellent teacher um Molly-Cobain and ah so I think she helped- helped with the transition 'cause we were still- like, we were awfully young.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: And apparently everywhere had a puddle too (laughs). I wonder how far you could get going from puddle to puddle. Speaker: You- you- well you could probably try but your skates would be awfully dull when you got to wherever you were going. But I remember this ditch um just- just up there, up the road which is now free of water in the- in the winter was a- you could skate.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.