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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
... but as the years went on, I would see Larry in a store or something, and you-know when I was a younger mother, and we would have little chit-chats. He was an awfully nice person, but as you-know, as it is, when you're in school, you don't often think that way. But ah, I realized why he did what he did, when he did.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
No, that's the nice thing eh? You don't get people that are awfully drunk, there's no fights, um, it's peaceful, I don't go home with a headache.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
But anyways, I was in the living room and he had walked in- he was only there maybe a minute. And I thought, "Geez, he's awfully quiet," and I got up, but when I gotten up, it was too late. He had already grabbed the bucket and it went all over him. So ah, I- it's not funny but it is.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: In the winter, sometime, we take- well I think the- take- took the bus once but we used to take the limousine service. Interviewer: (inc) Interviewer 2: Ah, wonderful. Speaker: And it's so nice, but it's getting awfully expensive now. Interviewer 2: Oh.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
... the lake's been frozen for the last eight months, so it just kind-of opened up now, so- I did go swimming though, had to put the dock in at the lake, so- it was awfully cold.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I-mean we wore the football jerseys for our hockey team. Interviewer: (laughs). Speaker: Yeah. Um actually that doesn't say much for the size of our boys either. Anyway. 'Cause you would think they'd be awfully big on us, but and that was before face-masks and-so-on.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
And ah at that time you had no help socially. If- if you had a mental ill- ill child. You kind-of hid them more-or-less but they were awfully good to him. I could always remember that they were a large family and they had this child to look after ...
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: That's my daughter has- says that's here favourite saying. "Suck it up mother or- use it or you lose it." Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: (Laughs) So- but she's an awfully good daughter. When she goes away, they- they have a place down in a- in Clear- Clearwater and ah- in Florida.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
Interviewer: Oh, who got you that? Speaker: Yeah, leave it one for a while because it- it ah- oh, one of the girls here, they're- the staff are awfully good to me. Interviewer: Look at that, isn't that pretty. I want one.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
So I worked for Mister-Hill and he was ah- an awfully nice man and as far as I was concerned and he- he didn't like office work and he'd just say, "You just do- answer this however you like and say- say whatever you think I should say."
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
Speaker: I thought she was coming yesterday (laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: Usually she does come Wednesday morning. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: But she's awfully nice. Interviewer: Mm-hm-
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
Speaker: But it was a lovely wedding. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: And ah- and it made out fine and I thought I'd get awfully tired and Jessica said, "Now look it, when you want to go home, I'll take you home. Don't worry about it.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... I realized that that aunt of mine who came on the Meteor in nineteen-one, they came May, she had a baby the end of June. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: In nineteen-oh-one, she's either awfully brave or awfully stupid (laughs). Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: To come to a place with no doctors and. Interviewer: (inc). Speaker: And to be pregnant.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
So they pulled up to the- they pulled up to the house and the lady was out on the veranda and said, "Lady we're awfully sorry, we ran over your cockerel. We'd like to replace it." She says, "Please yourself, the hen's around the back."
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: No, we had to freeze. No, we froze (laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs) You must- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Remember freezing at the end- Speaker: We- Interviewer: Of the driveway. Speaker: Yeah yeah, it was awfully chilly. We'd s-- and we'd have- we'd always have other people we waited with so it was kind-of nice that way. But it was cold, very cold.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Well that, really, that's what it amounted to. And that's what our progress is (laughs). It- it's a- it's ah, unfortunate. It sounds- sounds awfully good, well you- everything is so much healthier in quotes. And ah- because it's government inspected and-all-that.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... like a lot of people when they came to the wake, they said "And you're left with those two little children." Like as if it was an awful burden. But what I'd have done without those two children, I don't know. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: They've been awfully good. And they never caused me any problem and they're- they're very good to me.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
... they didn't have their father. And ah, the- it made ah, th-- no-- ah, I had a sister and her husband that was awfully good to us. And they'd see every summer we got a holiday and take us away for a while or go to a cottage and-so-on. And there was different people were kind to us. And ah, no I- I'm not looking for pity.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Oh yeah and he'd always go and get the bag and bring it out and put it in- I had a wagon and you see he'd put it in the wagon for me. Oh yeah, he was awfully good with me.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Yeah, I'd love to hear more about um your childhood in Beaverton like what were the summers like? Speaker: Oh the summers were awf-- awesome. I lived awfully out in the country but I was close to the beach. Interviewer: Oh that must have been nice. Speaker: And I had access to Lake-Simcoe.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.